Journeys Begin With a Single Step
It seems that I’ve spent my entire life wishing I was somewhere else, that I was on a journey to somewhere exotic and foreign. While I’ve traveled a bit and to incredible places, I’ve always come home to a seemingly ordinary life. I’ve read quotes recently that say something to the effect ‘create the life you don’t have to get away from’ and now I’m thinking: Journeys aren’t all about going somewhere else. However, journeys are about change. “The journey of 1000 miles begin with one step.” Lao Tzu Each of us is on a journey. Some are longer and some are shorter than others but they all have…
Happy Anniversary to Me
Just over a year ago, the first post on my blog went live. I cannot tell you how frightening it was to push the “publish” button. But I did and here I am one year later. When I started this blog, I was in the middle of a class designed to take a person from idea to blog. I had lessons each week and assignments. The idea was to make plans for the blog and posts. I had this glorious idea to have a blog to promote healing through journaling. Life had other plans. One of the assignments was to write some letters to yourself using a site called FutureMe.org.…
IWSG: It’s Time for the Next Step
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another post for the Insecure Writers Support Group. The past month has been a struggle in all areas of my life, especially my writing. I think I’m trying too hard. I feel as if I have been going 100 miles an hour and finally crashed. I’m discovering there are a couple of things that make me crash. One is fear of failure and the other, fear of success. I don’t send my work out a lot but when I do it’s stressful, for me at least. I seem to wait and wait for the inevitable rejection. When it comes, my momentum…
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