2017 Predictions for Writers
I like to watch trends, and after looking at the past year, here are my 2017 predictions for writers. Dictation Software This will be the year that dictation finally takes off and writers get over…
What It Is Wednesday: Friends? Friends!
I have never at any one point in my life had more close friends I can count on than at this moment. That realization both surprises me and makes me smile. It’s unexpected. It’s beautiful….
What It Is Wednesday: Cutting People Out
I am known for cutting people out of my life. That’s because it’s an external response, sometimes a very public one. What isn’t known is the months or even years of internal response, the patience,…
Manifesting Near Misses
If you want to know that something is NOT manifesting for you, you will see not the object of your desired manifestation but fragments and shades of it. Almost like this is as close as…
What I’m Doing Right for Christmas 2016
Christmas 2016 and I’m tired. No, weary. No…. No, let’s call it what it is. I’m exhausted. Muscle, bone, spirit. There’s always a lot of talk this time of the year about what Christmas…
What It Is Wednesday: Fighting Back
Some days I wonder if I might burn in Hell for the things I’ve done, namely times when I’ve balanced a mighty imbalance or justified filling a vast injustice so that the landscape could be…
What It Is Wednesday: Killing Off My Core Belief about Marriage
For most of my life, I’ve been pretty happy with the idea of undefined relationships. They could be close and emotionally intense and defy all known tropes in a romantic relationship. Here’s the thing: I…
What It Is Wednesday: How Prayers Are Answered
I believe the answer to prayer takes the path of least resistance. Sometimes praying for something better means everything around you falls away harshly before something new and good can grow out of scorched earth….
What It Is Wednesday: The Coldness of Self-Protection
I feel ashamed at the moment. Facebook Memories are messing with me badly. Most of those old posts that are being resurrected via FB are private/only for me, but they still pack a wallop. One…
What It Is Wednesday: I Wish I Were Younger
For the first time in my life, I wish I were younger. Probably not for reasons you might think. I’ve always fired back at newly-forty-somethings who insist they’re old and promptly pigeon-hole themselves into an…
