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A Resting Space
“All I want to do is write!” I complain about this regularly when life gets in the way of my creative space. A friend challenged me on this statement recently in a unique way. “Sounds like your mind...
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Take a Walk with a Friend
It was cold outside but my heart wasn’t in my blog. I bundled up and went for a walk. I sought the snow covered woods for solitude, peace of mind, gentleness of my spirit. I just wanted to be alone...
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Gold Under Them There Leaves
“There’s gold under them there leaves!” I heard the shout ahead on the trail as a couple of my friends dug deep under the autumn leaves of the forest to pull out beautiful mushrooms, fat and luscious....
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Falling Down and Stepping Out
Falling down. Falling in love. Falling for. Falling is failing. Who said? I’ve found that falling down, in, and for means stepping out. If you didn’t step out, take a step forward, move, risk, push...
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Calendar Patterns
Patterns. I love patterns. There is something comfortable in repetition. You know what is coming next. Maybe it’s the American school year ingrained in my sense of schedules and calendar that drives...
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Winter Writing
Winter is my most productive time. I thrive in cold temperatures. Always have. Winter glues me to my desk. Time spent outdoors and traveling is reduced, and productivity increases. My best work is...
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Frozen Trust
The berry branch was locked in ice, frozen solid. A trip to the Midwest taught me more lessons about what extreme cold can and does do, locking nature down in layers upon layers of ice and snow,...
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Super Hero Blogger
He was bored. We’d spent the prior evening putting together chairs from Ikea for my new dining room set and this morning, my little visiting friend was bored again. I can’t remember ever being bored...
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The Hardest Part of Blogging
A student asked me what was the hardest part of blogging, and inspired an article series. As I look over almost 30 years of blogging, it boils down to these four things that are the hardest part of...
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Trust and Authenticity
When blogging became a word that led to an industry, the most common words thrown around to define and describe blogging were trust and authenticity. Where are those words today? Today, we live in a...
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