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Sacred Pens and Holy Notebooks

Posted on 06/02/2018 by chick

Speaking of “sacred pens” and “holy notebooks” . . . If you’re going to write a lot, you need a good pen. Some of my journal entries from 2017 have faded badly, perhaps because they were exposed, if only briefly, … Continue reading →

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The Four “R’s” of Writing

Posted on 06/02/2018 by chick

Sometimes when I’m free-writing in my journals, I start to see relationships between words that I never noticed before. One day I found that you can put the homophones right/write/rite/write together to make a little piece of advice: It’s right … Continue reading →

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Always Remembered

Posted on 06/01/2018 by chick

It’s dangerous to leave your journal lying around, because someone might read it. Or they might write in it! Hmmm. Maybe I should leave my journal laying around more often. Maybe it’s a good way to keep up with what’s … Continue reading →

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Grateful

Posted on 05/31/2018 by chick

Today I found out what was wrong with my car. It wasn’t just a problem with the ABS system. It was a brake fluid leak. Scary. So I’m feeling especially grateful that it happened where it happened and that I … Continue reading →

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A Question

Posted on 05/27/2018 by chick

What do you do with a journal once you’ve filled all the pages? People have different ideas about this. Some say that you curate it. Others say that you shred the whole thing. Some people keep their journals forever. If … Continue reading →

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Three and Three

Posted on 05/25/2018 by chick

1 2 I took the day off from work. Around mid-morning I went to the library with the intention of having a leisurely look through the new books. I planned to follow that up with a walk in the woods. … Continue reading →

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An Epic Fail

Posted on 05/25/2018 by chick

The December 2017 issue of Smithsonian contained an article called “The Strange Beauty of the Epic Fail” by Franz Lidz. The part that was most interesting to me was that one of the “epic failures” is a product that I … Continue reading →

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She Took Time and Effort

Posted on 05/24/2018 by chick

People say that if you write a little bit here and a little bit there, eventually it will add up. I guess “People” were right. Though I feel like I haven’t been working on my novel much, Scrivener begs to … Continue reading →

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Creativity Club

Posted on 05/22/2018 by chick

Dear Kids, One night last year, Livia was working on a story. She asked if she could write downstairs. “Of course!” I replied (because if somebody want to write, then they should be able to write anywhere they want to!). … Continue reading →

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Too Much Coffee

Posted on 05/21/2018 by chick

I think I have fully proven that coffee makes me anxious.

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