I just entered my nominations for the 2012 Bloggies. So much fun! I have never done this before and I wish I had. Maybe it’s like voting: it’s not just a right, but a responsibility. Please do your part and enter your nominations here. Email this post
I spent the month of October in pain. First an injury, and then an illness, each of which is particularly painful in their individual categories. Not at all fun. I realized how little physical pain I’ve had in my life, with gratitude and also guilt – how could I not have appreciate all those many, [...]
In the last few years I have grown more aware of, and more intimate with, the powerful relationship I have with both light and dark, but the truth is it’s a theme that has run through my whole life… I am honored to share my thoughts on the solstice today at Rebecca’s beautiful blog, Altared [...]
I was honored when my friend Rebecca asked me to contribute a prompt for her Relish 11 project. My prompt was: What quote, or line from a poem or a song, most captures what this year was for you? I’m actually totally flabbergasted by how hard this is for me to answer. I have books [...]
Now, time for more answers … another group of questions emerged, around the logistics and reality of blogging and writing. Do I ever feel like I’m running out of ideas? Am I a quick writer or do I linger over words? When do I write? Do I write lots of posts at once? How do [...]
my birthday, my blog’s birthday: the same, yet different! Today is my five year anniversary in this space. Five years! My first post, in September 2006, mentioned two friends who have continued to be hugely important fixtures in both my life and on my blog. Last year I marked my blog anniversary by asking for [...]
I’m honored today to have an essay on the brand new, wonderful BlogHer Moms. Stacy Morrison, who I couldn’t respect more if I tried, asked me to write about why summer is a sad season for me and, I think, for many moms. Please check out my essay and poke around the rest of BlogHer [...]
I’m hopping on Susanna Conway‘s delightful August Break bandwagon … for the month of August I’m going to post a picture a day, and take it easy on the words. If moved, I’ll write words, and may well share quotes, but I need this break and am sure you can relate! Please join us – [...]
Jena Strong of More Joy, Less Oy is one of my favorite writers out there. She writes gorgeously – richly, luminously, heartbreakingly honestly – of her path, which has included some unanticipated switchbacks, of her continued efforts to live an authentic, engaged, truthful life, of her girls, her faith, her open-eyed wonder at this world. [...]
It’s not a secret that I am a huge, fawning Fan Of Pam. Her blog, Walking On My Hands, has inspired my own writing many times (here, here, here, and here), and I cannot possibly recommend it highly enough. Walking On My Hands is about, in Pam’s own words, “learning to live with grace.” It’s [...]
