One month ago, I wrote a blog post called The Big To Do List, and I set out some resolutions for the month of June. I blasted through those goals. I wrote three decisions in two weeks, revised my mystery novel in 10 days instead of 20 days, and blogged 26 times out of a …
Last week, I posted this blog post, Overcoming Barriers to Being A Writer, and got some great responses on Facebook from people who had different barriers than I did. I want to share them, as well as advice that other readers gave. I have some ideas too. Several people noted that a barrier they had when …
This is my June To Do List. Everyone is so busy these days. So busy, they can’t get anything done. People who brag about how busy they are have become some of my least favorite people (after conservative Supreme Court justices and the regime they enable, of course). Meanwhile, everyone is impressed by the fact that …
How is everyone out there doing on their June memoir project? I’ve been blogging (almost) every on my Medium blog. Here is today’s post. Then I’ve been cutting and pasting it into this blog, and adding a memoir writing prompt. I’ve been doing that because, in theory, I can get paid by Medium when people …
I committed to writing a blog post every day this month, but today, I just don’t know what to write about. I hosted a sleepover for my 11-year-old last night, and had to get at 2:30 to make the loudest possible shushing noise I could. I’m not sure it worked, but I’m also not sure …
Last July, I wrote this column on Creating Your Own Political Giving Strategy. Wow, time flies. Stacey Abrams, the candidate who sparked me to write that won her Georgia Democratic primary, and may be the first female African-American governor in the US. Stacey was one of very few candidates I gave to in the past …
Here’s another theory I have for which I have done no research. Food tastes better than it used to. Not a huge revelation, of course. People value food that is locally grown, organic, or heirloom/heritage. Cooking shows have turned the whole world into knowing gourmands, debating the ratio of salt and fat in every dish. …
Last month, in one of those little sidebar articles in The Atlantic, I came across an intriguing idea: That midlife needs to be treated as a distinct developmental period in a person’s life, much the way adolescence is. Historically, there was no such thing as The Teen Years. Children abruptly became adults, accruing responsibilities of …
I keep a big piece of white paper on my office wall called The Big To Do List where I track steps towards project goals that I have. I have had one up for about a month and says “*JUNE 30 DEADLINE” after the title. After that, there’s a box with some 2018 writing goals …
I am a die-hard New Year’s resolution-maker. Every January (on the first business day of the year to be exact), I review my resolutions from the prior year and make some new ones. I didn’t make very many this year, so I’ve been thinking about making a couple of new ones. But first, I thought …