Repost from Inspire a Fire and a Blog Tithe

I’m always getting invitations on Facebook to various events. Most of the time I ignore them. But when I got an invitation to tithe my blog, that caught my eye. Gina Holmes at Inspire a Fire asked folks to consider re-posting the article below by the end of the month as a way to tithe our blogs.…

A Sign

I’m convinced that three members of the local writers’ group signing first time publishing contracts in the past week or so is a sign. But I’m not sure if it’s a sign that I should give  up or a sign that I should work harder and write more (meaning write anything at all). In the…

To Do Lists

  Working on my To Do lists for the week. There are three: writing, jewelry, and fitness. Even with all the technology available I find index cards are the easiest way for me to manage my lists. I have one card for each To Do list for each week.

9/11/01-9/11/11

Not sure how I’m going to be able to handle all the 9/11 stuff this weekend. My parents still lived in DC when it happened. Thankfully Dad wasn’t at the Pentagon that day. I couldn’t get in touch with Mom to make sure they were okay-all the phone lines were jammed-couldn’t get her on her…

Intermittent Blogger

Hmmm…so much for a blog post a week. Guess I’m more like a blog post a month. Oh well. Maybe spring will jump start me again.

Joining the Challenge

I’m joining the WordPress blog post a week challenge. I pledge to post at least once a week during 2011. So let’s get started!

Suggested Reading

Go read today’s article at Speculative Faith. Couldn’t have said it better. http://www.speculativefaith.com/2010/10/fantasy-compatable-with-christianity/

Morning Pages

One of the people I follow on Twitter recently started writing morning pages, an exercise advocated by Julia Cameron. The morning pages exercise is a way to capture those random thoughts, snippets of ideas, or other unconnected bist swirling around in our heads. The idea is to get up each morning and write longhand whatever…