Prerequisite Steps

August 9, 2010

I remember reading something in a book about writing that a friend gave me. It talked about this lady who wanted to quit her job and be a freelance writer. Her husband wouldn’t let her quit her job. Her argument was that if she only had more time in her day she would be able [...]

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Talking Like A Grown-Up

August 8, 2010

I was watching one of the BBC Chronicles of Narnia movies with my kids recently. One of the little girls tells the other characters in the story that she has seen Aslan, the great Lion King, pass by. Sightings of Aslan are rare and precious and the other characters don’t really believe her. They claim, [...]

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Scattered Pieces

August 7, 2010

I am reading a book. I underline. I star. I make notes in the margins. I am a scientist searching for evidence to prove my theory.
I am watching a movie. I am ever searching for proof, for answers, for clues to a mystery. I pause. I rewind. I capture quotations. I analyze. I am a [...]

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Not Defined By Our Condition

August 6, 2010

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
A [...]

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Protected: Scavenger Hunt Friday!

August 6, 2010

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Angry Homemade Noodles e-Book & Opening a Bookstore

August 5, 2010

I can’t believe this day is finally here! I have opened a bookstore, a little nook in my Messy Canvas world. You’ll see it along the top tabs of my blog. That’s the porthole into a new world for me, a world where I’ve committed to words and to stringing them together in some sort [...]

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Protected: Pure Foolishness!

August 5, 2010

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Believing In Others to Create a Movement

August 4, 2010

My kids are teaching me how to replicate myself. It happens in the times where all four of them need me at once. Last night we were sitting at the dinner table and I decided to read to them while they ate. The first couple paragraphs were fine, but when I got on to paragraph [...]

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Protected: Proclaiming a Day

August 4, 2010

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Reading Rabbit Trails

August 3, 2010

I’m not sure how it happened. It was subtle, sneaky. I was reading classical fiction and books about writing for my self-imposed Writing School. East of Eden, Catcher In the Rye, The Writing Life, the reading plan was going so smoothly. Then a book suggestion here and a trip to a used bookstore there, an [...]

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