When was the last time you had a pen pal? As a kid, I exchanged letters with some pen pals—visiting the mailbox everyday was an adventure. What surprise and delight surfaced when I recently received a snail-mail letter from a long-time friend. We’ve been exchanging snail mail messages—exchanging our stories. If you follow this blog,…
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Book Review: What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life?
By Bruce Frankel ~True stories of finding success, passion, and new meaning in the second half of life~ When Lisa from TLC books offered to send me this book to review—the subtitle had me at hello. Who wouldn’t want to find passion and success at any and all points of our lives? While this book…
Righting Time
(The title of my post is a play on words—a perfect example of a homophone [e.g., bear/bare, know/no, stair/stare]). Every day, I make my best effort to carve out righting time by choosing writing time—taking time to right/write my mind, to give it a voice, to attempt to put chaos into order in the framework…
Omm Writer
I recently happened across a peach of a writing program—just a simple text processor that brings back the peacefulness to writing. It’s called, Omm Writer. (Currently in Beta V2 and only available for Mac users, sorry to you PC folks out there.) I knew I’d love this application when I went to the home page,…
Front Porch: My Sensory Deprivation Tank Experiment
If you follow this blog, you know I host the Front Porch series where I write about everyday stories, just stories that folks talk about on front porches, back yards, or in break rooms in snippets during the day. I recently read a book, sent to me by a dear friend, called “Surely you’re joking,…
RAOKA: Passion
February Theme: Passion (chosen by Dani, author of Positively Present ) As this month passed by in a flash, passion was on my mind. As I’ve said in a previous post, what is on our mind makes us see “it” more often in our daily lives. That’s why I love RAOKA so much, it turns…