There is so much going on right now that I have no idea which direction is up from moment to moment. You would think I would be used to that, but this time it is different. This time things are happening from all different directions, situations becoming more twisted and more complicated every day. There […]
I had a homework assignment this week for my Craft and Practice in Creative Writing class. It was an “observation and reflection” free-writing exercise for which we were to take 20-30 minutes in some familiar setting. For the first 10-15 minutes, we had to simply observe on our surroundings, considering the external aspects of our environment. For […]
Living and Learning I am a big believer in trying to find a silver lining or lesson in everything that happens in life. That’s my way of trying to make something good of situations and experiences that are often anything but good. Sometimes those lessons are positive; sometimes they aren’t. But there is always something to […]