Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what’s happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what […]
Moving to Block Island
My two year old niece’s friend recently moved. Let’s call my niece, Katie (This is NOT her REAL name.) So last month, Katie’s Mom asked her if she could move ANYWHERE where she would want to move. You’d think her answer would be near her friend wouldn’t you? That’s what I expected when her mom […]
Daylight and Spring
Living in New England in the middle of winter can be quite the challenge if you don’t have the right attitude. If there is one thing about New England winters that distress me more than anything else, it isn’t the cold. Although, the bitter cold does cause me some concern. It’s the early dark that […]
Dredging Up Memories
My friend, Jessica Mokrzycki published Pain’s Precipice at her blog yesterday and it dredged up memories that were buried deep in my consciousness: Spending time with The Professor’s Husband Because like Jessica, I visited someone who I became close to over the course of several years. You can read about my friend in the linked […]
Dichotomies
A couple weeks ago I posted something on Google+, about dichotomous interests and I realized as I was writing my thoughts out that each interest took over while one hibernated. My maternal grandfather introduced me to my photography obsession when I turned ten years old. He bought me my first camera for my tenth birthday, […]
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
As a follow up to Being Equitable, here’s another example: As everyone is aware New England was hit with a massive blizzard on the weekend of February 8. I’m certainly grateful for the fact that I live in a condo after the effects of this storm. My neighbors all helped each other shovel out our […]