Back in a Flash

I’ve been kind of feeling like I’m missing the forest for the trees when posting this blog lately… more focus on emotion and less on action makes a dull read. So, now that I have time, I am going to return to writing about the week in detail [hmm… maybe I should have a recap […]

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Semi-Automatic Learning

Today I attended Righting the Craft – a class on revisions – and guess what? I actually want to revise! Throughout the class, we gathered many writing exercises that help you unlock your own work (it’s very similar, actually, to analyzing published works in English class – I just never thought of applying the same […]

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Ups & Downs…

I feel. I really do.I’m not sure why, but today has been one of changing emotions. I felt so good just to be at the end of the week and having accomplished something with my cast and having worked out most days of the week… then it came crashing down when my oral spiraled away […]

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“Our Love Don’t Have to Change… No It Don’t… Have to Change…”

I wish I could photograph sound, because I have been listening to John Legend’s first CD [Get Lifted] over and over again in my car, at my house and in my head… My goodness, so much soul music! It preserves me emotionally.There is really little to say otherwise. Here is the latest on my Goal […]

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Tea

That’s it. I’ve been converted.Heathy (a long long time ago) sent me a sampler of three types of loose leaf tea, and so I asked my dad for the best Valentine’s Day gift ever: a tea ball.So I have now opened both the Darjeeling and Earl Grey teas, smelled their deep aroma and gazed at […]

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Now

I feel like such a whiner. Though I am still fairly down, I have buoyed myself up on a raft of progress and am no longer spiraling into terror. Hooray? So I must now list some “magical cures” for sudden depressive flashes:– Take a walk– Narrate your life [preferably as you walk, with a friend […]

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My Self

I wish there was a reason to cry. Because then it would make sense and I would be able to – without guilt, without fear of my own emotions. I would be able to express without thought, without judgment. But instead there is no reason. There is the sound of my breath as it moves […]

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