by Terra Osterling | Mar 15, 2021 | Experiences, Game-changers, Uncategorized
Prologue: As of this writing, 2.65 million people worldwide have died of Covid-19. Deaths in the United States number more than half a million. There are millions more who survived the virus. And millions more who have lost everything, but their life, to the shutdown....
by Terra Osterling | Apr 29, 2020 | Game-changers, Motivation, Nature, Uncategorized
Sta·sis /ˈstāsis/ Noun: A period or state of inactivity or equilibrium. Prologue: I started thinking about the concept of stasis as long ago as last fall when I jotted it into my journal, pondered through winter, and finally began writing in the first days of March....
by Terra Osterling | May 1, 2016 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, Interesting People, Uncategorized
The husband and I own a lot of music. Our combined CD collection exceeds 400 albums, and about 15 years ago he acquired an obscene amount of ‘shared’ music from a C-shift lab computer at work. Our digital catalog now numbers around 5,000 songs; two MP3 players are...
by Terra Osterling | Aug 27, 2015 | Experiences, How I got "here", Interesting People
As a writer and a storyteller, it’s hard to admit that I don’t know how to begin. Something is missing. Not something practical like a pencil or keyboard. Not something existential like creativity. This isn’t writer’s block. The something missing is more like having...
by Terra Osterling | Jul 8, 2014 | Experiences, Game-changers, How I got "here", Outside my comfort zone
Six months past the Polar Vortex and a winter season spent, literally, under a blanket, I have a new found love for summer. The balmy breezes coming through the window screen, heavy with the fragrance of everything alive: sweet grass and milkweed blossoms, pungent...
by Terra Osterling | Feb 9, 2014 | Game-changers, Inspiration, Lessons from Faith, Outside my comfort zone
On New Year’s Eve almost six weeks ago, The Husband and I drank a bottle of champagne while raising toast after toast to both the prior and coming year. In our typical ‘we-are-our-own-party’ fashion, we played loud music, laughed, and counted our many blessings. My...
