by KimBoo York | Dec 31, 2016 | Life and all That
Anticipation: the action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction. Tonight, I am going to allow myself some unrestrained anticipation for the new year. Things might go wrong and I’m sure terrible events will continue to happen, but where there is a...
by KimBoo York | Dec 30, 2016 | Life and all That
Persistence: firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. I think the idea for today’s theme really has roots deep in 2016 — even though it has not been a particularly tragic year for me personally (I’ve...
by KimBoo York | Dec 29, 2016 | Life and all That
Intention: a thing intended; an aim or plan. I felt that determination comes before intention, because without the emotion of determination we won’t make the intellectual choice of intention. Today I spent time hammering out my plans, trying to make them...
by KimBoo York | Dec 27, 2016 | Life and all That
This guy, he’s not even subtle. I actually went on one date with this dude — we met on FSU campus back when I was in grad school and working at the Senator Pepper Archives, so about 2012 or so. It was one of those dates where the guy seems...
by KimBoo York | Dec 23, 2016 | Life and all That
It has been engraved on my soul to save household documents by parents whose deaths bequeathed to me their tax returns from the 1960s. I treasure those documents, because they contain my parents’ lives in very factual ways (income, taxes) and very sentimental...
by KimBoo York | Dec 22, 2016 | Fiction, Life and all That
An interesting thought exchange with ClassicalSass about “why post/publish your writing?” led me back around to the idea of being a writer vs. being a storyteller. Yes, of course, there is critical overlap there. I’m not talking about hard...
