By Sandra Tayler
This post is going to ramble. If you’ve talked to me since the middle of May, there are strong odds that I’ve mentioned “The Feelings Box” where I’ve been shoving many emotional experiences to get them out of the way so that I could keep to important “get stuff done” schedules. I try to pause [ ]
I’m feeling my way forward with a mind that wants to race ahead and solve all the problems of the next three months. As if that were the only way to feel calm, to already know all the answers. Impossible task given the variables and unknown factors. So I sit with anxiety this morning, trying [ ]
This week I have been in the mountains of Colorado with five other members of the Writing Excuses podcast team. We re all staying in a house together and recording podcast episodes. It is lovely, but also exhausting because of all the focused performance and thinking. I am incredibly grateful to have this group of friends [ ]
It is two months since I last posted. In that time I made and planted garden beds. I still have work to do. The pavers need to be evened up and I need to sweep sand into the cracks to set them. On the back side of the garden I want to build a path [ ]
If all your bills were paid for the next year, how would you spend your time differently today? I was feeling unsettled and dissatisfied with my days even though they were full of tasks accomplished, So I assigned myself to answer the question above. It is a thought experiment that I included as an optional [ ]
My February defies summary. Best I can do is to say that it was seriously overbooked with worthwhile things. Each of these events and tasks is worthy of a leisurely unpacking via descriptive blogging. I would love to tell all the stories of LTUE, and of Storycon, and of how prepping for the Locus fundraiser [ ]
I am in a month of outflow. Time, attention, decisions, energy all pour from me in service of contracts I chose. I have to remember that it was a choice when I wash up empty in the evenings, when I wake up wondering what resources I have to offer the day. I am so fortunate [ ]
If you are going to be at LTUE, please make sure to find me and say hello! Wednesday February 11 8-11am. Structuring Life Around Your Writing, an LTUE Masterclass. Thursday February 12 9am PANEL in Cedar We do it this way: Ritual, Habit, and the Logic of Culture 12pm PANEL in Canyon Health: Physical, Mental [ ]
I wanted to follow my New Year s Bird tradition (2024 2025), so I watched for birds this morning. But it was raining and all the birds were in hiding. I heard some chirping and the Merlin app told me it was House Finches, but I wasn t certain whether to count them. My back garden [ ]
Each year on Christmas eve we gather as a family around a candlelit nativity scene. We have envelopes, one per person, that contain pages where we each write and reflect on the year past and the year to come. This tradition has remained treasured despite a divergence of religious belief. When I opened and looked [ ]