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  • The 12 Best Books I Read in 2021

    I didn’t reach my reading goals for 2021. I started the year with a Reading Challenge on Goodreads of completing 77 books. Didn’t think it would be too challenging. After all, in 2020, I read 126 books (although my initial goal was only 99). In fact, I’ve met or exceeded my reading challenges for the Read more

  • Rest in Joy, Joan Didion

    Rest in Joy, Joan Didion

    In Memoriam, A Review of The White Album Joan Didion, American novelist and essayist, passed away last week, at the age of 87. Her book, The White Album, was required reading for me to obtain my MFA in Creative Writing. One of my professors loved her work and spoke about it at length. I had Read more

  • 5 Hard-Earned Remote Work Lessons

    I’ve been working from home for over 10 years as a freelance writer and editor. These days, clients search me out and invite me to work with them … But it wasn’t always like this. I’ve learned several lessons about remote work, particularly while launching my work-from-home career. Some of these lessons were costly in the Read more

  • The Still Point – A Poem

    When you believe    in a dream you can reach You head out west            or any of the four directions      or six, counting ground And sky But some part of you       returns               or remains, the still point From which you travel To which some part      of you     always        returns Read more

  • Seven Tips to Setting Lifechanging Goals

    Seven Tips to Setting Lifechanging Goals

    “The brain is a goal-seeking organism.Setting a goal creates structural tension in your brain, which will seek to close the gap between where you are and were you want to be, who you are and who you want to become.If you don’t set goals, your mind will become stagnant. …Goals are dreams with deadlines.” — Read more

  • 12 Things to be Thankful For

    It is Thanksgiving day! I have so many things to be thankful for and take far too much for granted. So today, I’m posting 12 things to be grateful for. 1. I’m thankful for butterflies. While sitting here, there are butterfly wind chimes hanging above me, and I have a butterfly design on a folder Read more