Writing

Posts about the writing life and the love of story

Tasty Little Dream Bits

Tasty Little Dream Bits

Roxanne of Champion of My Heart commented on my Digging Up Dreams post, reminding me that besides the big dream, such as a horse vacation in Europe, you need to have a little piece of your dreams built into each day. I agree. Too many people end up disappointed because they think that they’ll be…

Digging Up Dreams

Digging Up Dreams

You know how it is. We all have dreams. Some we’ve carried around with us all our lives, and some are fairly new. But more often than not, we have even more dreams that we have buried – we’re too old, too broke, we don’t have time, we’re not smart enough, not talented enough, it…

This and That

This and That

Last night, Lynn and I went to the 2009-2010 Loft Mentor Series Reading. I won a spot in the Loft Mentor program in 2000, the same year I got married. It was a wonderful experience but they’ve improved the format of the program by leaps and bounds since then. You get to work with six…

Loftiness

Loftiness

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. — John Holt  One of the effects of depression is the strong desire to withdraw from life. You may not want to be a bother to people. You don’t want…

Paddling Upstream

When my cousin and I were around 12 to 14 years old we paddled a rubber raft from the cabin all the way down the shore to the bay. When we turned to go back to the cabin, we were fighting waves and wind in a device that wasn’t exactly built to cut through water….