Sometimes reaching a goal can feel like a fly trapped on a porch.
Continue readingA Fly On The Screen Analogy For Reaching A Goal
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A World Of Infinite Ideas: How To Catch Them?
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. — Carl Sagan Ideas are everywhere. They find you when you’re on a walk, a drive or in the shower. I often get ideas when I’m rinsing twice. So I keep a pad and pen on the bathroom sink. Maybe one day someone will invent a waterproof pad… Continue reading
Write and Embrace the Strange
If you can’t fit between the lines, don’t try to squeeze into a compromising position.
Continue readingA Tale of Two Blogging Platforms
You may have noticed a silence lately emanating from my blog. Words missing. Subscribers slipping. A blog on the verge of extinction. But, it couldn’t be the farthest from the truth. I’ve just migrated over to the Medium blogging platform that has a wider audience than mine. Medium is a community within many communities. Topics… Continue reading
Blog Post: Headline Not Included!
I used to wait until I had a headline before writing a blog post but realized a headline corrals your thoughts. Sometimes you need to let your thoughts run free. See where they lead you, not follow where your headline tells them to go. That’s when I have the most fun writing—when I let my… Continue reading
Blogger, Writer, Tech Support Stalker
When you buy a piece of Internet real estate, you inherit all the quirks. After three weeks of the dashboard doldrums, I can finally write again without waiting five minutes to log in, and another 10 to access a draft. On the phone with GoDaddy support ten times or more (maybe a billion) over the… Continue reading
The Improv Playground of Deranged Spontaneity
Where thoughts run free… I’m back at the keyboard trying to put together a sentence. Woo-hoo! Got one! Now, where do I go from here? Down the page, of course, keyboarding my way through a bramble of thoughts. Ouch! I wish they’d stop needling me. Yet, they continue pushing their prickly points. Bramble! Bramble! Bramble!… Continue reading
Finding My Focus In Life And Writing
I’ve always had trouble finding my way from Point A to Point B and often end up at Point Z. With thoughts in a constant state of flux, the only way to anchor them is to purge them onto paper. If I didn’t write, my backed-up brain would need an enema. It’s hard for thoughts to stay in one… Continue reading
Why Writers Write
| Moment Catchers | Word Shapers | Many of us didn’t choose to become writers. Writing became us. It is an intricate part of who we are that inspires us to become better writers and therefore better people. Writing is therapy, a self-motivating, actualizing process that helps us understand the world and ourselves, by observing then… Continue reading
In Search of My Blog’s Soul
I’ve been searching for my blog’s soul that I lost over time. -Will I find it with my car keys? -Do blogs have a soul? Questions, so many questions… A nugget of curiosity rattles around in your head. Do you have the answers? You might ask. Yes, I might reply. I’ll tell you what I know… Continue reading