This past week I wrapped up an online Copy Writing course, my first “formal” effort to get practical writing experience and build my credibility. It was an exhilarating time of study, creative exercises and homework; I forgot how much I truly thrive in a learning environment. It does return me to the question that begs …
Motivation
In Print
Things come in “threes,” or so we all hear. Pigs, bears, blind mice. Celebrity deaths. General happenings. One work day a few years ago, I returned to my desk and spilled my morning coffee everywhere. My co-worker arrived late, because she had spilled coffee all over the inside of her car. A while later, one …
Time
The exaggerated spinning hands of a clock. The pages of a daily calendar whipped away by a wind. A tree changing from verdant, to scarlet, to barren. Time. It drags when we want passage, and flies when we just need to catch our breath. Life is full of milestones and the distance between those milestones …
Fall Schedule
I have no idea what new T.V. shows are on this Fall. I’m only vaguely aware that it is “Fall T.V. Season”-time because I see school buses in the morning traffic and people are talking about football again – I can put two-and-two together. We don’t even get a TV book in our newspaper anymore. …
Drought
Six months ago, I wrote this short blog post about enduring winter in the Northeast. On January 31st of this year, my corner of the state experienced a 17°F day that also provided a scant 9 hours and 54 minutes of daylight. (Daylight. Not sunshine, not night, just “daylight”.) This was an improvement over the …
Independence: It’s not just flags & fireworks
Every July 4th, I make it a point to re-read the Declaration of Independence. I do it because there are words and symbols in our world that people live and die by, and there are forces that manipulate those words and symbols for blatant personal gain. (This is the same reason that I periodically re-read …
We interrupt this program for breaking news
Validation is powerful. Late last year, in the infancy of SuddenWriteTurn and during my growing realization that writing is my calling, The Husband came across an announcement on a local news website. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation was holding an essay contest: Share your positive and inspirational stories of your experiences in …
Letterpress, giving, pinecones, and fractals (keep up)
This week in Letterpress class, I finally printed a real project. It is a bookmark to commemorate a mission at my church, the Giving Tree. You might know the Shel Silverstein children’s book of the same name, about giving, pretty much until it hurts, out of love. The Giving Tree at church has collected hygiene …
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