At 21, I was full of idealism and ideas. My mind was full of story ideas and projects of all kinds. I had a strong burning desire that I wasn’t going to be wasting time, that I wasn’t going to spend my life doing humdrum work. I made a pledge to myself that I was going […]
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Creative pursuits of all kinds can be fragile. People who do creative things inevitably doubt themselves. They doubt their ability, for some reason we always let the negative voices in out head tell us we aren’t good enough. Then you look around at others who have accomplished what you want to accomplish and it seems
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” At forty I’m beginning to learn the mechanism of my own brain– how to get the greatest amount of pleasure and work out of it. The secret is I think always so to contrive that work is pleasant.” Virginia Woolf Developing and maintaining a writing habit is very much like exercise. You think about
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“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seeds every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree’s way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling its treasure on the wind.”
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Collins, Kathleen. (2009). Watching What We Eat: the evolution of television cooking shows. New York: Continuum. ISBN: 0-8264-2930-0 I’ve learned so much about food and cooking from watching cooking shows on television. As a teenager I would watch and long to be able to make the kinds of recipes being shown; dreamed of having a
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Schaefer, Elizabeth Maynard. (2008). Writing Through the Darkness: easing your depression with paper and pen. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts. ISBN: 9781587613197. Using writing strategies, from journals to essays and fiction, as a strategy for handling depression and working through emotional problems is not exactly a new idea. But Elizabeth Schaefer PhD. manages to offer guidance
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I’m not a big follower of popular music, but somehow Rob Thomas’s voice and lyrics speaks to me. It is great to hear a male singer with a strong voice who expresses both vulnerability and strength through music at the same time. He ahs a new album coming out June 30 called “cradlesong,” and the
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The June 18 performance of the Requiem by Hector Berlioz was perhaps the best performance I have seen at Verizon Hall. The music is powerful, and has great variety that flows from soft moments to all-out rapture. The Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5 (or Requiem) by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837 to remember soldiers who died
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My dog Elton died last year on June 13. We honor the anniversaries of people’s deaths, but it feels a little strange saying publicly, ” my dog died one year ago today.” But the thing is, for so many of us, our pets really are part of the family. Except dogs are more forgiving than
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