Category Archives: Blogging

Gantlet Vs Gauntlet

“Medieval gauntlet” (CC BY-NC 2.0) by  fullon2012  I recently wrote a piece in which I compared driving in a country as “running a gantlet.” My reviewers all said they thought I had spelled the word wrong. But I was so sure I was right. I had even looked it up in a dictionary (I can’t say “the” because IContinue reading “Gantlet Vs Gauntlet”

Readers Write-Perseverance

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-Perseverance”

Eight-Week Challenge: Week One Results

Week one of my eight-week challenge is done. So far, so good. As a reminder, here are my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500 words per day for atContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week One Results”

Homework: Conditioning

A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “Sierra Softball Conditioning 2013.jpg” (CC BY-ND 2.0) Photo by  Matthew Folsom  Homework Think of how your negative conditioning harmed you in the past. Describe a few situations where you acted out of unconscious negative conditioning patterns and discuss what happened and why. Many years ago, I arrived in a new country forContinue reading “Homework: Conditioning”

Eight-Week Challenge

One of my favorite bloggers is Queen of Blank (real name, Danielle). Her blog is The Caffeinated Writer (from which I nicked the image for this post since I’m following her lead, but you can see that because it is part of the image). She’s on the East Coast, where I came from back inContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge”

Homework: Being Present

A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “Just be present. #wiaddc” (CC BY-NC 2.0) Image by  dnkbdotcom  Homework Remember the last time you lost control, which caused you a lot of emotional or physical distress, perhaps even resulting in a financial loss. Describe what happened. I have to admit it is very difficult for me to remember a situationContinue reading “Homework: Being Present”

Homework: The Value of Time

A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “time” (CC BY 2.0) Photo by  Sean MacEntee  I came across the 13 Steps to Awakening series when the blogger, Alex Moses from A Life Answer, liked one of my book reviews.  The first of the 13 steps included a scenario I found intriguing for a short post.  The lesson alsoContinue reading “Homework: The Value of Time”