Tag Archives: blogging

“Love has your back”

Last August, while visiting my childhood home down in the Thumb of Michigan, I picked up a tattered copy of WILD MIND: Living the Writer’s Life by Natalie Goldberg. I bought it at the library uptown (Barry laughs when we … Continue reading

Posted in December 2021 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 23 Comments

I’m playing a fun game

Yesterday I started playing a fun game. Today I will share that game with you. We might call it Photo shorts. It’s a blogging game. You know I love writing 900 words about 900 different stories. But yesterday I decided … Continue reading

Posted in November 2021, Photo shorts | Tagged , , , , , , , | 36 Comments

All the blogs we cannot write

This post is dedicated to all the blogs we cannot write. All the stories we cannot tell. All the tales that never reach the light of our reader’s eyes. There are so very many stories blooming inside of us that … Continue reading

Posted in November 2021 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 51 Comments

Miracle of an October walk beside the Slate River

Every October Robin (over at the blog Breezes at Dawn) hosts Walktober. We bloggers are invited to take a walk, write about it, link back to her original post. If anyone wants to participate please read her Walktober post and … Continue reading

Posted in October, 2021 | Tagged , , , , , | 66 Comments

Swooning

This morning, sipping hot coffee on the couch, I announced to Barry, “The Winter King kissed us with snow again last night.” He eyed me above his coffee mug, raising his eyebrows only slightly. “What–are you taking some online poetry … Continue reading

Posted in February 2021 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 43 Comments

Poof! (and she disappeared again)

I apologize in advance for the times of silence on this blog. For quitting reading your posts. For just going quiet and seemingly disappearing into thin air. Poof! Just like that…gone. This time, during the 75 day spiritual blogging commitment, … Continue reading

Posted in February 2021 | Tagged , , , , , , | 48 Comments

Catching up, fake news, I was wrong, Path of the Heart

It’s a frigid January morning here in our little house in the woods. The propane furnace motor hummed during the night trying to keep us warm, and this morning at 6 a.m. I started a roaring fire in the wood … Continue reading

Posted in January 2021 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 47 Comments

Ready for it to end! Don’t want it to end…

I can’t wait until this seventy five day blogging commitment is over. Counting the days until it’s ended…six, five, four… Man, it’s lasted forever and a day. 2021 can’t come soon enough! I am going to be bereft when this … Continue reading

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What really matters–turning the compass to True North

At 5:30 a.m. sitting on the couch with coffee in hand–I wondered what the heck to write about today. Looked inside the seeming abyss of the mind. Absolutely nothing there to share. Here we go again. OK, Holy, what do … Continue reading

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Oops. Confession.

You win some, you lose some, right? On November 19th, just before Thanksgiving turkey, I vowed to give the house a thorough cleaning by Christmas. Even though our little house in the woods is always very neat and tidy–I sometimes … Continue reading

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