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I Am Who I Am
Thoughts on Mental Health Thursday This question made me squint and furrow my eyebrows. This question makes no sense when you consider the obvious, we are who we are because of our experiences. I consider that to be well, obvious. What shapes us is our experience. As kids, our initial opinions and thoughts about certain… →
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Shangri-La!
Initially when I read this question, I glazed over the “for a week” part. I initially thought of what my grandpa said one time when watching my Grandma Jean pamper their rescue dog, Hammer. Hammer was a retired racing greyhound. They lived in Florida and apparently there were organizations dedicated to finding homes for the… →
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One and Done
I have read so many books over my lifetime, because like the question yesterday about being a lifelong learner, I am also a lifelong reader. I don’t even remember when I first started to read. As far as I can tell, I’ve always known how to read. The thing is though, I don’t re-read books.… →
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Learn This
Just so you know, I’m going to hijack this prompt today. This question makes me cringe. The phrase “lifelong learner” was beaten into the brain of every teacher I worked with over the years. As teachers, we were encouraged to be lifelong learners which was a nice way of saying we had to earn a… →
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Writing, What Else?
What’s one habit that has improved your life the most? I almost forgot to post today which would be a bummer because I think the one habit that I have now is blogging daily. I don’t really have any other habits. I recently quit the gym because I gave up on running (it was a… →
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Over for Now
What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it? This is an interesting question today. One that’s actually easy to answer. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you can probably guess what my answers will be. My first two years of college… →
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What’s with that ending?
What’s a book you think deserves a sequel? Some authors do a really good job of telling a story in one book. They wrap everything up with a neat little bow and you’re left satisified, or mostly satisfied with the ending. Like Stephen King. Unless he’s writing something that is going to be a series,… →
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Chaos and Spam
Is a little chaos actually good for us? I’m a crafty person. I knit, I crochet, and because I do that, I have a lot of yarn. I also have a community of yarn friends on Ravelry that often talk about the same thing at one point or another, and that is…organizing our craft room/yarn… →
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Local News Junkie
So many things about being a grown-up are reminiscent of when I was a kid, except many of these things are opposites. When I was a kid and all the way up through high school, my parents were religious viewers of the evening news. I hated watching the news! But there they were, every evening… →
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Intuition After All
I think following your gut is about listening to your intuition. I don’t necessarily think I have intuition. But apparently, according to Google, I have indeed done this before. Google says that to follow your gut means “to rely on your intuition or instinct to make a decision, rather than relying strictly on logic or… →