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Apr 22, 20191 min read
Home Is Where Your Heart Is
Read this on galpod.com. We're back from a two-week stint in Israel. I wrote about coming back to my childhood home before, about the...
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Apr 9, 20192 min read
Homecoming
Read this on galpod.com. Coming home has always been an ambivalent experience for me. It's my home, obviously. I know the house inside...
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Apr 4, 20192 min read
End of March Reflections
Read this on galpod.com. Well, it's been a hectic month in my standards. I've had a few random stuff happening such as volunteering...
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Apr 2, 20192 min read
Sitting Up All Night
Read this on galpod.com. My daughter has a fever. We went to see the doctor. It's probably nothing, but we went just in case. He gave me...
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Mar 26, 20193 min read
On Exploding Schedules and Disappointments
Read this on galpod.com. For some reason, my schedule this and next week has exploded. Instead of the usual full school-day to write and...
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Mar 21, 20193 min read
Book Review - The Creative Curse and The Unstoppable Creative
Read this on galpod.com. I'm reviewing both books together because I got them together through Todd's very generous deal. I also read...
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Mar 15, 20193 min read
The Different Faces of Impostor Syndrome
Read this on galpod.com. When I started my graduate career, I remember meeting a doctoral student. She was in her third or fourth year,...
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Mar 4, 20193 min read
End of February Reflections
Read this on galpod.com. I didn't have monthly goals for February. I was coming off the birthday high and trying to wrap my head around...
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Feb 11, 20192 min read
A Desk with a View: On Ideal and Realistic Writing Environments
Read this on galpod.com. I read an article with advice on how to create the ideal writing environment. Sometimes I fall for these things,...
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Feb 4, 20193 min read
The Creative Spark
Read this on galpod.com. I've been thinking lately about what it means to be creative. I have no definitive answers about that. I'm no...
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Jan 31, 20192 min read
On Creative Multitasking and Procrastination
Read this on galpod.com. I'm stuck. Remember that breakthrough I had in my story in July? Turns out it wasn't much of a breakthrough...
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Jan 24, 20193 min read
How I Became a Writer
Read this on galpod.com. There is a challenge going on in one of the groups I skim, and there are prompts. Prompts are helpful because...
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Jan 21, 20192 min read
On Filling Cups and Going All In
Read this on galpod.com. First, an admin update: I was trying to switch to the new Wix blog, but I'm not entirely sure about it. One...
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Jan 14, 20192 min read
Book Review - Atomic Habits
Read this on galpod.com. I started reading James Clear's Atomic Habits before the Christmas break and finished it last week. It's...
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Jan 10, 20194 min read
On Setting and Sharing Writing Goals
Read this on galpod.com. A couple of days ago, over at my super-fun writers' group, we talked about goals. The discussion quickly...
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Dec 30, 20183 min read
2018 Year End Reviews - Part 3 Maybe
Read this on galpod.com. Right. My amazing MIL took the kids to play outside, so I estimate I have about an hour. I'm completely ignoring...
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Dec 19, 20182 min read
2018 Year End Reviews - Part 2.5
Read this on galpod.com. I know, I know. That's going to be confusing. But I anticipate tomorrow and Friday to be extremely crazy what...
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Dec 14, 20183 min read
2018 Year End Reviews - Part II
Read this on galpod.com. Trying to answer these questions, I pulled out all of the notebooks I've used in the last year. There were three...
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Dec 11, 20184 min read
2018 Year End Reviews - Part I
Read this on galpod.com. I stumbled upon this challenge of year-end review prompts over the weekend, and I thought that might be fun. I...
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Nov 30, 20183 min read
End of November Reflections
Read this on galpod.com. Well. It's been an interesting month, that's for sure. It has also been six months now since I started the...
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