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Thank you for all the kind comments and emails after m...

Thank you for all the kind comments and emails after my last confession.  I am feeling better.



If you've ever suffered from anxiety, you know it can appear out of nowhere and can also quickly turn your world upside.  Sometimes I can just pressure through it.  Sometimes I just try to disappear, retreat into my home, my life, my garden.



I guess this would be a good time to tell you that my soon-to-be published book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, explores some of the anxiety I was ...

My New Glasses...

Confession Tuesday

Forgive me, it's been one week until my last confession.



I confess that anxiety has gotten the better of me lately.  Maybe it's the moon, maybe it's skipping my vitamins, I do not know, but since Friday I have not felt like myself.  Well, I've felt like myself but myself with tasmanian devil mind, spinning, spinning.



I have felt unsettled.



A few people have asked me about it.



When I tell them that part of it might have been from proofing my book, they don't understand.  A friend today ...

Today's Humor--

I'll file this under "What Not To Name Your Cat..."

When there's not enough time to write--

Well, now that I know this exists, things are all good!

Giveaway! - Breyers Smooth & Dreamy Bars and/or Sandwiches!

Because I like dessert so much as well as giving things away, I am part of a blog tour for these new Breyers Smooth & Dream (low-cal!) ice cream treats.



They sent me 6 coupons for free Breyers ice cream treats - 1 coupon so I could try it myself and 5 to give away (yeah!)



 I tried the Triple Chocolate Bars (first photo) and yowza, I have found something that has replaced my Skinny Cow treats!  These are the best!  And my family loves them too.



They are absolutely deliciously, I think...

Request: How often do you write?

Request: How often do you write?











More in the fall, winter and early spring than in the summer.



I used to try to write every day, but now it's probably every other day during the fall/wtr/spring  and once a week (or less or more) during the summer.



I don't really keep track of how many days I write because I always tend to be writing or creating.  If I find myself cranky and annoyed, then I know I haven't written in a while.



I can usually tell when something in my world is out of ...

Confession Tuesday - Beach Bubblegum Edition

Dear Reader,



I confessed about pie a couple weeks ago and how I love dessert, I decided to focus on my bubblegum sins.  (Yes, I chew a lot of gum, but that's not what I mean.)  Bubblegum for the brain.

I remember a friend once referred to Billy Collins' poems as this, but I'm going even more bubblegum, out of the poetry world and into mass market paperbacks or as I call it- beach reading.

Forgive me, Reader, I have committed many literary sins in my life time from reading Rosie...

Self Portrait with Cannon

Request: You seem to have a lot of projects, yet mention "living simply." How does this work? How do you find balance?

You seem to have a lot of projects, yet mention "living simply."  

How does this work? How do you find balance?













This is a great question!



I do have a lot of projects going on at once, but I am also someone who has no problem having a"do nothing" day.  I look for any reason to go to the beach to read magazines or a book.  I like to sit on my deck and stare off to the north, to the mountain with the cloud halo.



If I find myself feeling overwhelmed and not having time for my...