I honestly can't believe it's been a month since my last post. I knew it had been awhile but REALLY?! A month? What I have I been doing with myself... Wait! I can actually answer that question this time. Really! Normally, these weird sabbaticals wind up with me returning with an embarrassed grin and little …
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Bye-Bye to Bad Thoughts – How to Embrace and Work Through Worry
Next up on my road to mindfulness... Working through (and embracing) bad thoughts. Something that has always stuck with me from my therapy days was the notion of ACCEPTING my feelings, worries, and fears. A lot of my stress and anxiety came from the fact that I was upset with myself for being upset. I …
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My First Journal (And Why I Won’t Burn It)
I read an article, or conversation, in the last issue of Poets and Writers I received. It was three poets discussing the freedom of destroying old journals and why they had destroyed their own. As I read the article, I felt so sad. I was sad because they had destroyed all their keepsakes from another age, and …
The Victim of a Busy Mind
I want to do everything. This year I discovered that I can change my life to become one in which writing is a large part of it. Now that I have the time and energy to do this the ideas are flowing, but not in the same vein. I am a melting mountaintop depositing little …

Independence on Fire Island – Travel Blog #1
In the 2013 edition of Best American Travel Writing, Elizabeth Gilbert notes the two most important facts she’s learned about travel writing: There is no story in the world so marvelous that it cannot be told boringly. There is no story in the world so boring that it cannot be told marvelously. In fact, she …
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