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November 1 - November 15, 2025
question, “What am I going to do with my life?”
Who am I and what really matters to me?
100-day project,
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designer and Yale professor Michael Bierut in which you perform one creative act daily for one hundred days—a sketch, a poem, a photograph, whatever medium calls to you.
use discipline as a vehicle for creativ...
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the 100-day project offered much-needed structure, accountability, and most important, a container for my restless mind.
Life, Interrupted.
I wanted to live boldly. I wanted to hold the best-case scenario at the forefront and have that guide my decisions and actions.
to trust and find ways to delight in the mystery of how things unfold,
It is possible to alter the course of my becoming.
“morning pages,” a practice popularized by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way.
Upon waking, before brushing your teeth or drinking coffee—before your inner critic is roused—you write three longhand, stream-of-consciousness pages.
In my morning pages, I wrote abou...
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I wrote about the person I wanted to become and the distance between me and her.
Rather than waking up anxious or afraid, I began to feel a clear—if humble—sense of purpose:
I would read a page or even just a paragraph, often selected at random.
The experience was kaleidoscopic. A sentence, an idea, an anecdote could turn the barrel, refracting and reframing my perspective.
Their words threw off sparks, kindled fresh questions, and sent me in surprising directions.
Someone else’s words awaken a different train of thought, a new energy.
What do we do? How do we get through? How do we stay connected?
journaling, searching, making sense of our lives together.
the alchemical properties of journaling showed us how to turn isolation into creative solitude, confinement into connection, and confusion into clarity and calm.
The Book of Alchemy explores the art of journaling and all it can contain.
Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor: “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our
a mirror, showing you things about yourself—what you’re holding on to, what you’re resisting, what you’re longing for, who you want to become next.
The journal is like a chrysalis:
It’s a rare space, in this age of hypercurated personas, where you can share your most unedited thoughts, where you can sort through the raw material of your life.
you uncover the answers that are already inside of you, and you...
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The journal is where we seek out and find our highest, most liberated, most creative self.
fold your journaling into a nonnegotiable part of your existing routine, you build in some kind of accountability, and you lower the barrier to entry.
fifteen minutes to be the golden increment of time I need to write through the fog and to get somewhere unexpected and interesting.
May they spark something new and beautiful and true.
Let your pen fly. Follow your curiosity and intuition.
To begin, begin, Wordsworth said. So simple in theory, and yet so elusive in practice.
a writer must feel she has nothing to lose. And truthfully, what is there to lose? To begin, begin.
What’s the worst thing that will happen?
To begin, begin again.
For writers, a day spent writing is a good day—always.
“welcome home to the home that doesn’t feel like home”
Mothering a critically ill child with disabilities is the most wild gift. It’s a life of surprises, delights, and never-ending interruptions, and that’s just before breakfast.
writing is how I translate my life to myself. It’s my sense-maker.
embraced a writing life of Ten Images. That’...
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ten moments, mental pictures, scenes, objects that pop up when I recall the ...
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from the mundane to the exceptional—it d...
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great sense of accomplishment: I have lived another day. I have seen what I’ve seen.
No matter what is going on in the world, within or without, I know I can find a home in these pages.
The Art of Dailiness Michael Bierut
It was a chaotic time, and I wanted to engage with current events, but on my own terms, in a meditative way.
The practice had less to do with the output and more with getting myself in a proper frame of mind for the rest of my day.
It was a ritual I continued throughout the entire calendar year.
