Introducing the my99 Playlist Challenge
The Great my99 Challenge: Selecting the top songs of your lifeIN A BLOGSHELL:Who: You! Finally, a countdown that matters to you What: Challenge to post your lifelong top 99-song playlist, with accompanying anecdotes that tell the story behind some of your selections When: Postings should be on July 3 and 4, before 9 p.m. Where: [...]
bye bye cnn
Bye bye, cnn. You suck my energy too much. You too, news feeds. get the hell out of here. I am too selfish with my energy these days. I’m liking the groove I’m in a little too much. Another very productive writing/painting day for me today, despite not getting to bed until 1:46 a.m. I’m [...]
A Writer’s Day
By all measures, I had a writer’s day.I woke up early (but not as early as I intended; still, 6 a.m. did the trick) and hit the daybook immediately, followed by a full hour of watercolors before the family started to stir. I’ve been experimenting with various blends, wet and dry brushes, all with bringing [...]
The Great 12 Images Mosaic
Thanks to Janet for this one. I had great fun doing this, and I recommend it highly. The concept: 1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. 2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. 3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into [...]
addendum to my six people I’d like to meet
…and I think you’d like to meet her as well. Her name is Christine Kane, and she’s an inspiring artist who does a phenomenal job of keeping in touch with her fans and friends through her blog and through email. She’s a reminder to me of just how important it is to stay grounded in [...]
Tagged…
…by Catherine What were you doing ten years ago? I was quitting my job as editorial supervisor to the world’s largest weekly medical publication, The Journal of Biological Chemistry. I felt dead inside. Just dead. I faced mortality for the first time in my life, and I genuinely believed that if I stayed in that [...]
Solstice Thoughts: Footsteps in History Aren’t Made Sitting Down
My friend Michelle blogged about a young girl who lost her battle with cystic fibrosis last week, and I was drawn to her caringbridge site for so many different reasons. As a teacher, I’ve lost too many kids to tragedies–some in their control (drugs, car accidents) and some not (murder, cancer, cystic fibrosis). So when [...]
What Dreams May Come! ~~Part II
(This is the second of a two-part story detailing a rather odd dream I had two nights ago. If you have not yet read part I, which precedes this post, dip below this entry and read the background of where part II picks up!) “Welcome back.” Staring back at me were the two escapees whose [...]
What Dreams May Come!
I’m just not sure where this one came from, but it’s weird enough that i thought I’d blog it out there and see what everybody else thinks. Literal? Figurative? Bizarre, either way… …I’m under the pool at our swim club. I mean, underground under it, walking through these secret tunnels that have glass ceilings, where [...]
Father’s Day Feast!
I was blessed with two early-morning hours of writing in solitude. I found the event to unfold in three rather untidy stages: the dumping of all that which has clogged my brain–deadlines, to-do’s, anxieties; the recognition of why we’re here in the first place; and the rededication to hold on to those things that are [...]
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