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Somehow I completely missed the one-year anniversary of this blog on June 12th! It’s been fun to go back and see how much my thoughts have changed or stayed the same and, most exciting, how the very act of blogging has improved my writing skills. To celebrate, I’m sharing below what I wrote one year …
“[I]ntroverts are people who find other people tiring” ~ Jonathan Rauch A StumbleUpon suggestion this morning led to me to a very good list of Top Ten Myths About Introverts, my favorite being this: Myth #5 – Introverts don’t like to go out in public. Nonsense. Introverts just don’t like to go out in public …
“[I]ronically, the woman who appears well adapted may be the one who has simply become most comfortable being governed by her fears, while the ‘neurotic’ one is still gamely struggling to reach fearlessness.” ~ Becoming Fearless, Arianna Huffington Serendipity. My favorite word of all time. It happened a couple of times this week. First, on …
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt What is the thing …
I recently read a delightful post, Tomato Therapy, by Michelle Johnson, whose Magical things. Beautiful things blog is a treasure of both well-written posts and excellent resources for writers. Michelle writes: I found myself re-potting my tomatoes the other day, and chuckling as I realized that every time I have gotten a rejection letter, I …