Where were you and what were you doing when FDR died? Few people can still answer this question, but for the generations that came of age and were adults during the Depression and World War II, the memory of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt—his funeral took place 68 years ago today—was as indelible as …
“Art is our way of creating the universe and making it sacred.” ~ Mark O’Brien Last night I saw the movie The Sessions, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. This morning I began to read about the real life of poet and journalist Mark O’Brien, the subject of the film, which led me …
“I protect my creative energy. I carefully manage my time to ensure the most creative and critical tasks are done in the mornings (when I work best) and free of distractions from family or meetings. I construct my daily to-do list to have pockets of juggling and coordination, and pockets of free space. I make …
I am slowly coming to appreciate and even relish this part of who I am, this introversion that I misunderstood for so very long as shyness.
A friend and I have decided to read Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose: A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love so that the next time we meet for coffee, we can discuss it (and our mutual experience of feeling scattered at a time in our lives when it seems we should be more …