Gwyneth Paltrow used the term "conscious uncoupling" to describe her divorce process from Chris Martin. They were married for 11 years, and Paltrow used the phrase in her announcement about their separation. While it's a term that has been making the rounds for a...
I have downloaded a small digital timer to my desktop. I don't use it a lot, perhaps not when I should (to time writing sprints, for instance) and definitely when I shouldn't. It's there because I often care more about how something is done than in the result. It's a...
I'm going to get specific here about something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable: money. Specifically, about being poor vs. not being poor, and how emotionally debilitating walking the line between those points can be. Yesterday I spent nearly $1000 -- I caught...
Recently on tumblr I can across this wonderful piece of fanart, "High Fashion Disney Princesses" by Shasiiko-anti (on deviantart): And being in a sentimental mood, it reminded me of all the fanart I did as young girl. It wasn't called fanart back then, at least not in...
I would have kept them all but damnation, have you ever picked up a box of vinyl albums?
Recently on tumblr I stumbled over an art project by James Marquis called "Under the Wires", photographs taken of places underneath the towering power line cables that criss-cross the country. Images like this are striking: But what struck me, what STOPPED me cold,...
For the past two months I have been beaten down in an epic battle with, in Steve Pressfield's terms, Resistance. If you are familiar with his excellent books The War of Art or Do the Work then you know what I'm talking about: that unrelenting push-back against your...
This weekend I spent a lot of time sitting around staring at blank paper. It was a good thing, though. I've been writing a lot over the past nine months about goals, dreams, plans, and aspirations. I've talked about focusing on what I want while also keeping the bills...
2013 has been a good year, over all, but I’m feeling the lack of direction very acutely.