Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I woke up early this morning to write. Or, rather, I woke up early this morning – 3 am – and decided not to go back to sleep, but to write instead. I’m not sure that worked out too well, because I have little to show for it but a pile of disconnected thoughts and [...]

When Obama’s presidency was declared a failure by some on the leftish end of the spectrum – before he’d even been inaugurated – I decided I’d give him a year in office before I really started either critisizing or praising. This did two things… allowed President Obama to build up a record beyond that of [...]

I downloaded some writing prompts recently, with the intention of doing one each day to jump-start my writing. This plan has worked, though perhaps not quite in the way intended. It’s more like when a doctor tells you if you don’t do this, you’ll have to do this other awful thing, you know? Take pills [...]

Just in case anyone is wondering. As seems to happen often lately in my life, one thing unravels and soon the whole thing is just spiraling away (I won’t say out of control, but certainly out of sync). Really depressing, if nothing else. Anyway, I am not quite back yet but should be soon.

My little experiment of writing something every-single-day, even if it’s complete nonsense, is working out nicely. Granted, it’s only been 15 days but already I can see the effects. Not so much in my writing as in my willingness to actually sit down at the keyboard, write something and click “publish”. I have a before [...]