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Birds of a Feather Flocking Together

  • Posted onMarch 22, 2021March 20, 2021
  • `The Healing Garden

I belong to the best little writing group. We meet once a month, reading each other’s work and offering a variety of edits. After offering our words to the group, we dive in like raptors to pounce on weaknesses, sharpen the focus and rip open…

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Why Build Your Stamina?

  • Posted onJanuary 11, 2021January 25, 2021
  • Basics

Stamina, otherwise known as the ability to keep going, runs through the blood of every successful creative and business person. We build our stamina bit by bit, training ourselves to do the work to reach our goals. But why do we take the time to…

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The Rough Road Serves You

  • Posted onDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020
  • Basics

Yesterday, I took the dogs for a walk. Rain and snow had left the road covered in a treacherous mixture of wet asphalt and black ice. Areas where shadows remained the day before still retained white ice spread across the road, and snow coated the…

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Stop “Shoulding” Yourself

  • Posted onDecember 17, 2020December 17, 2020
  • Basics

Should. This familiar word wraps me up in its arms and holds me close, filling me with guilt and comforting me with an apology to the world. It’s familiar in its unrelenting judgment. The addictive powers of Should pull me into their welcome grasp and…

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Dropping the Leash

  • Posted onDecember 11, 2020December 11, 2020
  • Basics

I was walking the dogs the other day and accidentally dropped Ty’s leash. At the time, I was focusing solely on inserting our other dog’s poop pile in a plastic bag and didn’t even realize I’d lost it. Ty, our little terrier, walked and sniffed…

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Creating a Creation Group

  • Posted onNovember 24, 2020November 24, 2020
  • Basics

My knitting group met at the cutest little coffee shop. Every Saturday morning, I’d arrive at 10am. I’d grab a cup of tea and maybe even one of the delectable snick-snacks that they offered. And then, we grabbed up a table or two and would…

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How to Be a Creative Outlaw

  • Posted onNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020
  • Basics

Three years ago, my wife had a stroke and ended up in a rehab center. Everything seemed awful and I didn’t know what was going to happen. This crisis tanked the small business I was attempting to get off the ground, so we had no…

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All the Cool Kids Are Doing Their Verbs

  • Posted onOctober 30, 2020October 30, 2020
  • Basics

Last Friday, I took a couple of hours off and my wife and I drove up onto the Blue Ridge Highway. The trees, as promised, showed off their autumn color – brilliant magenta, deep rust, bright yellow, and even a sneaky little celadon beaming from…

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Is That a Butt-Print I See Behind Me?

  • Posted onOctober 22, 2020October 22, 2020
  • Basics

Now that we’re a little over half-way through October, I can see the holidays rushing towards me like a tsunami. Ten days until Halloween, thirty-six days until Thanksgiving, and then December is here with holiday parties, gifts to be created and given, and all sorts…

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But Is It “Just the Way It Is”?

  • Posted onOctober 16, 2020October 16, 2020
  • Basics

Very little in this world works like gravity. Gravity is “just the way it is.” You drop a glass, it falls to the floor. If something isn’t a scientific law, that doesn’t have to just be the way it is. Even scientific laws get tested…

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