Monday's Motivating Word

Oct 10, 2011 | Quotes

Endurance The ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions; stamina.  Therefore, since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,...

Hemingway Lesson Part II – Replenish your creative well

Oct 7, 2011 | Books

I love the scene from The Shining when Shelley Duvall goes into Jack Nicolson’s office and finds a stack of paper with “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” typed repeatedly for hundreds of pages. When I first saw it, back the 80’s, it really creeped me out....

Lessons by Hemingway Part I

Sep 29, 2011 | Books

I’ve had a really hard time writing my blog this week. The problem started Monday morning. After forty minutes of writing my morning pages, I dashed off to the airport to pick up my son. I took him home and then ran a few errands. By one o’clock, I was on the opposite...

Hemingway – A Moveable Feast

Sep 22, 2011 | Books

Lately I’ve been obsessed with reading novels that fictionalize famous authors. I read The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare (about Shakespeare’s wife) and Becoming Jane Eyre (about the inner life of Charlotte Bronte). Part of the obsession is my love of history....

The Vine of Negativity

Sep 16, 2011 | Uncategorized

Last Thursday had an artist date. I got the idea from The Artist Way by Julia Cameron, where she suggest we go on an excursion once a week to nurture our inner artist, similar to dating your partner. You get to know yourself again and fill your creative tank by...