“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring Happy birthday to J. R. R. Tolkien! See the bottom of this post for a fun clip of the cast and crew of The Hobbit showing off (or not) their knowledge of the man himself. One …
I recently finished reading The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts, and it’s one of those rare little gems of a book that I am going to re-read right away, before moving on to more of his works. Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a London-born philosopher who, like one of my other favorite writers and thinkers, Pema Chödrön, …
Do you work well under pressure? That is the first prompt for this month of daily blog posts, and I am stumped immediately. My answer(s)? Often not. In terms of the flight or fight response, I definitely want to flee, or acquiesce … or sleep. A recent Atlantic article discussed the drowsiness that some people feel when …
After the motivational boost I got from participating in NaNoWriMo this year, I’ve decided to do something similar in January, but with blogging. Once upon a time, NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) was in November alongside NaNoWriMo, as an alternative for bloggers who committed to publishing daily posts for the month rather than writing 50,000 …