Monday, February 1, 2021

Starting the New Year Over Again on February 1

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I've always loved beginnings: New Year's Day, Mondays, early mornings before sunrise. The first day of the month is another perennia...
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Thursday, January 28, 2021

From Bliss to Grief: Or How My New Year Did Not Turn Out the Way I Thought It Would

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On Monday, January 4, I posted my simple three-word goal for 2021: "Bliss, not dread." On Tuesday, January 5, I got the call that ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Saying Yes to Life, and Saying Yes in Death

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This is a post I hadn't expected to be writing, and I wasn't sure it was even appropriate to go public with this private family grie...
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Monday, January 4, 2021

My Three-Word New Year's Resolution

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 Last year I made the world's most convoluted set of new year's goals, which predictably failed.  This year I'm making an extrem...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Why My Last Year's Goals Failed (and no, it wasn't all because of COVID)

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I'm seeing lots of rueful laughter on social media right now about the folly of having bothered to purchase a planner for 2020. This was...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Lessons Learned from a Project Dreaded

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Well, I knew I couldn't live with myself (with my shamefully procrastinating self) if I didn't complete this one long-overdue, mega-...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Kind of Writing I Hate Most: or The Terror of Having to Write Something You Are Completely Unqualified to Write

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I have a writing project I have been procrastinating on for MONTHS.  It was due October 1, and it's now mid-December. Every single day I...
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