I was meditating, sitting on a meditation pillow when a tiny spark of an idea for a story came to me this morning. Before I share and expand upon that idea, you should know that the Back to the Future movies were my favorite movies as a kid. I also
I am distracted. I could blame the dog being sick and keeping me up all night. I could blame today's unusual schedule that delayed everything. I could blame the video game that I've been hooked on lately. But blame is so unnecessary! Why not be grateful
I feel the familiar, fearful sensation of uncertainty as I write this. It's the quiet voice of my inner Protector warning me, trying to keep me safe, out of harm's way. It knows it's safer to just do nothing. There's no telling
I've never been consistent with going to the gym. I've lost count of how many times I've tried. My technique is to get motivated, watch YouTube videos, figure out what workouts I should do, go to the gym maybe once a week for the
I'm tempted to play Teamfight Tactics right now. It's a video game that I got back into this past week. Normally I can wait patiently until the evening, after all my creative outputs, habits, errands, and meetings are done. Today though, I have been feeling the
The idea that you need to "figure out" something is part of the problem. You're overthinking. Yes, you could think really hard and try to make something perfect, but that's best done when you already have momentum. If you don't have momentum,
Daisy, oh Daisy... Daisy is my old, shared-custody, self-aware, digestively-challenged Bichon-Poodle. She was snuggled up on the heating pad in the living room when I checked on her last night. She was still snuggled up there when I checked on her again, just before I got
I hand-wrote the following, without pausing, just a little while ago. Pen in my right hand, scribbling away non-stop, and a delicious cup of homemade coffee in my left hand. There is a slight sourness to this coffee, but overall it's quite smooth, much more so
Dear Diary, Do people really say that? I'm OCD about what I call things. Is this my blog, my diary, my journal, my notebook, or something else? What is this writing that I do each day? Lately I've been calling my daily writing my "Letters
You take up a new creative practice. It could be writing, painting, web design, pottery, knitting, or a hundred other things. You do it every day and you share your work on the internet. You would obviously expect crickets for the first few days. You don't expect crickets
I sat down to write, but the blank page won the staring contest, so I went and took a nap. I sat down to write again, but I got distracted by social media. People are too clever! I sat down to write once more, and this time I reminded myself
There's the physical universe and then there's the idea universe. The ideaverse. Everything that ever could have been, could be, and will be exist in the ideaverse. An idea that is ready to come to life can hop from its universe into ours in search of