Image credit: Photo by beX out loud on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few weeks ago, as I was poking around the Internet, I saw an ad that caught my eye. "Turn your blog into a book!" it announced. "Hm," I thought, "Come to think of it, I could print my blog and bind [...]
Posts under ‘writing’
And We’re Back in 3-2-1
Image credit: Photo by juanpol on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Whew! I sat down today, with both kids finally healthy and off at school, with my husband healthy and off at work, with a house covered in a summer of chaos (which I am steadfastly ignoring) and thought, "I'll write about my daughter's huge [...]
My God Is
Image credit: Photo by jam343 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first started blogging, a little over two years ago, "God" was not part of my spirituality. The word still smacked of the old school God of my youth: that wrathful, angry-looking old white guy on the Sistine Chapel roof. I was hated [...]
Experience, Strength and Hope
Image credit: Photo by jaxxon on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A little less than a year ago, I moved my blog to its own URL, and when I did so, I had the opportunity to reread many of my old posts as I updated broken links (still not all fixed, by the way). As [...]
Inspiration Lost Haikus
On my morning walk, a thousand perfect phrases flooded through my head. I dashed in the door, sat down at the computer and found they're all gone.
If Your Child Doesn’t Just Eat…
Image credit: Photo by Proggie on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I started my day off on Tuesday by reading Lisa Belkin's reflections on what she's learned in the eighteen years of parenting since her son's birth. I thought, "Wow, that was lovely and touching and resonated with me in so many ways, I can't [...]
What Are You Thinking?
Image credit: Photo by gutter on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was recently reading a book on Buddhism and the Twelve Steps that describes a meditation exercise in which you label your thoughts: "desire," "aversion," "thinking." The author mentioned one woman who was surprised at how much of her thinking centered on desire: I [...]
Walking the Crooked Path of Dread
Way back a year and a half ago, I entered a contest to win a copy of the book Momma Zen by Karen Maezen Miller. I had never heard of the book, so I based my decision on the following factors: It was a free book. The title had both Momma and Zen in it, [...]
Routine
Image credit: Photo by Daveybot on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My son recently did something startling. He sat down in a different seat than usual. That may not seems startling, but for years, he has had the same place. And it's not just the same seat he enjoys, sameness in general comforts him: the [...]
Five Questions from the Maven
The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she handpicked [...]
