Ok, this is veeeeery annoying…

Soooo, I can either throw ecto under the bus for not posting the body of this first post to the blog, or I can pretend that I never hit save (I DID!) and what uploaded (a blank post) is what I had. Regardless, here’s to coming back into the game, distracted, unorganized, desperately still in [...]

Take me to the river, drop me in the water.

As an ex-whitewater river guide, River has taught me many things, possibly even more once I stopped guiding. So this is one of my main metaphors for this project. And I have some things lines up, like meds (!), time, and almost a bit of clarity. Drop me in the river dammit, because I know [...]

Time to Write

The Time to Write The Right to Write (Julia Cameron) Write Toward the Light Writing Right (or Left) Rites of Writing Pass the Writing Write ’til the Light Write-On

Soulcraft, Rumi, and a Dissertation

I never fell asleep. Maybe it was the Ladysmith Black Mambazo playing in the background of our room, something to help me sleep. Maybe it was that shot or three of flat Mountain Dew I pounded just before heading to bed (why was that here? I so rarely drink soda now) keeping me up. There [...]

The Blog’s Direction – Away from the [Tech] Heat

Ok, so I’m looking at the blog’s stats (yeah, now THAT’S called procrastination!) and I realized this summer I was getting a lot of hits when I was posting on cell phone this and that. It was hot. I hope I had some observations and questions that were helpful for people. Then, we moved…twice…technically 3 [...]

NaNoWriMo or Dissertation??? Ok, the choice is obvious…

But now that it’s November 1st, how great will it feel to potentially have next November available to write a novel of some sort! I don’t think I’ll have as much energy and excitement doing 50,000 words for my dissertation, but this is the time to start pounding some things out. It HAS to happen. [...]