I am a total nerd for lists. Lists and calendars help keep my scattered brain somewhat focused even though it's generally just a mess of ideas, questions, memories, and junk that just kind of scrambles in and out the door before I get a grasp on it. I have a planner full of lists, a …
Tag: goals
How to Be Happy (Hint: Not with this blog)
Wouldn't it be absolutely brilliant if you could Google search or ask Siri "How to Be Happy" and get a bunch of personalized returns? A link to your soulmate, a link to your dream job, and links to fun new hobbies would all pop up and you could save them and file them and never …
Getting Over a NaNo Hangover
I don’t think people talk about the subtle depression you fall into once NaNoWriMo is over. For those of you who aren’t aware, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, a decade long tradition of writers gathering in person and online to each write 50,000 words (the average length of a novel) over a period …
A Jug Fills Drop By Drop
Okay, wow, I haven't written about fitness since May. And for awhile I thought about just getting rid of the section all together, but I feel ready to tackle it again. I’ve come to a place where exercise has become a part of my daily life. So much so, that I rarely think about “having …
Hope Is How We Survive
Because I am a lover of words, I sometimes get a single word trapped in my head on a loop. The word won’t leave me until I exhaustively research it, wringing out every last bit of meaning, applying the word to my life, drinking the word up like a big glass of water. Only after …
