My mom has had a series of strokes and I’ve spent a lot of the last week in her hospital room. We thought we were losing her for a while there, but now she seems stronger and we’re just waiting to see. I’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, a picture and a poem. (published in Jeopardy, spring […]
Remember my post a couple of weeks ago, quoting Maya Angelou, how she, when she couldn’t write, would laboriously write “The cat sat…” and so forth? Sometimes when I’m not feeling it, when I feel I don’t have what I need to keep plugging along, I write down what I do have. I’m grateful for 6 […]
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” Octavia E. Butler
Why Pushing Ourselves Makes Us Less Productive. I really love this post from Lauren Sapala’s blog and wanted to share it with you. Timely for me. “We can imagine the present moment as a seed, or the bud of a flower. Our creative force is contained in that seed and we are also present with […]