Tune in on Monday, February 26, 2018 to hear me on WEXT-FM (97.7 fm or streaming on www.wext.org) from 11pm to midnight, when I’ll be reminiscing about my favorite rock bands from the 1960’s and playing some tracks. I originally published this post on April 17, 2014, and it makes for a good teaser and… [Read More]
Drifting downstream in search of inspiration
In search of illustrations for this blog post about NaNoWriMo and my writing process, I Googled “Woman Writing Painting.” Hundreds of images popped up, and as I scrolled through them, this painting of the Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse* caught my eye. The woman is drifting on a river, face tilted skyward, eyes… [Read More]
A tall tale featuring my top ten tags
Today’s blog post is a statistical experiment. Never fear, I know that sounds dreary, but I’m going to have fun with it by creating a fictional journal entry using key words and phrases that seem to have drawn people to my blog. I study my stats religiously, and they’ve been down in the past week…. [Read More]
Happiness is the right drug – or so I said in church yesterday
I was Sunday service leader for our Unitarian Universalist congregation yesterday. The sermon topic was “Psychology of Happiness,” and since I’ve lived relatively happily with bipolar disorder for many years now, it’s a subject on which I consider myself an expert. Here was the Reverend Sam Trumbore’s preview of the service as it appeared in… [Read More]