I thought a lot about my blog last year during my blogging hiatus. My thinking went something like this: [while up to something else, suddenly I’m reminded of my blog]: “Oh yeah:…
Category: Blogging
Serving Its Purpose Beautifully
I’m enjoying the latest stint of daily blogging, which started back in October. It’s been relatively painless from a work point of view. As usual, it’s satisfying to leave a “trail” of…
Carving Out My Corner of the World
One thing I love about this blog is that it is my turf. I get to set the rules, I get to choose the subjects, I get to go on about whatever…
Your Inner World, Made Visible to Others
Tonight I wanted to share some personal thoughts on what it means to me to write a blog. I haven’t exactly taken this tact on this topic before. I’m sort of going…
The Blog Where I Throw Rocks At Myself
A couple of days ago, my mom, a writer herself, made a nice comment on one of my early posts (You can look at it here , yes the post, and my…
My Daily Blog Meditation
Last night, as I sat down to start writing my blog post, I noticed that I was rather distracted, that my thinking was unclear, and that I was resistant to writing. Happily,…
Look After Your Own Happiness
My exploration into happiness is showing me again and again how important it is that we look after our own happiness. In other words, if we want to be happy, we need…
Leave the Place Better
Okay, it’s almost 9pm and I admit I feel a bit low in energy. However, I am posting on this blog, so I am motivated to clear my thoughts and come up…
Reaching for Satisfaction: Creativity Edition
Since starting up this blog again ten days ago–actually, for several months now–I have been thinking about what, exactly, this blog means to me. More importantly, whether I’m blogging or doing something…
A Fresh Start
In the past few years I have been doing everything I can to get a fresh perspective, to do things that are fun, that are different from the old routines of work…