I wake up, brush my toes against the rough carpet, and grab my pink fuzzy robe off the hook. I walk to the sink, look at my eyes in the mirror, puffy with sleep, and wash my face with an exfoliating scrub. I go downstairs, and step outside, taking a big gulp of fresh air wet with rain from the ...
writing
Life for me has always been dominated by words. Whether they’re words that I’m writing on the blogosphere or the words that go by so quickly in the latest book I’m binging. It’s a constant in my life. And despite that – for the last couple years – it’s ...
Awesome Person of the Week: Teacher Does Something Brilliant to Encourage Students to Write
We live in an age where kids grow up with computers and cellphones – everything is visual and not much is left to the imagination. It’s no wonder that many kids don’t like reading or writing – if you can just watch the movie, why read the book? And if there are already ...
As a contributor to Bad Yogi Magazine, I wanted to share some of my ideas and methods for writers on what, I think, make a good yoga blog and how I start writing. The First Step: Choose your topic For me, that comes from meditation or pre-writing / journaling. What ideas have been rolling ...
Some days nothing goes as planned. Everything you wanted to accomplish seems to have disappeared out of the window. All your goals, all your dreams, are so far away that you can barely see them. You ate a whole bag of candy even though you swore to stop eating sugar. You didn’t show up to ...
At this very moment it is 1 am and I just came home from a long day out. And I am writing this article. “Why?” you ask me? Actually, I am asking myself that exact same question right now. But the answer is simple, I committed to this. I set a goal to write for 15 minutes each day ...
I am a journaler. I have been putting thoughts down in a journal for more that two decades, but for the longest time I did not know how journaling was affecting me. I did not know that there was an underlying reason why after finishing one entry, I continued to be pulled back to pick up the pen ...