It’s been weeks since I saw the moon.

Usually I track it almost unconsciously – watching as it grows fatter, rises later, visits in the middle of the day.

But at this latitude, at this time of year, the days are just barely long enough that I’m never outside when it’s dark. And I [...]

This week I decided that no, I really do need my Franklin Covey planning back, so I ordered myself a lovely spring green planner with daily pages.

The thing that makes Franklin Covey stuff different from other planners is that it is designed to help you focus on what you really want to do [...]

I’ve gotten obsessed with Zentangle in the last few days (more on that anon), and in reading their description of the pens they prefer, I came across this line:

We provide Sakura’s Pigma Micron 01 black pen for drawing Zentangle patterns on our tiles. This pen uses pigments instead of dyes (dyes are more [...]

Raymond Carver has a poem called “Late Fragment,” one I’ve had posted on my wall for years.

And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

That’s it. That’s the whole poem.

For [...]

I’ve been experimenting with mindfulness at work. For a long time, I had Gmail, Google reader, Facebook, Twitter, Thunderbird, my work email, and my work chat open all at the same time. It’s the 21st century! Aren’t we all supposed to be multi-tasking our brains out? Isn’t that what counts as work these days?

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Whether or not I set resolutions, I tend to experience the switchover of the calendar year as a kind of reset button, a bigger and brighter version of Sunday, or night.

For whatever reason, I experience these liminal times as natural times to start over. For instance, I’m trying not to eat dairy and [...]

It’s The Day We’re Supposed To Be Grateful, and although I dislike forced gratitude nearly as much as Havi does, there are a lot of things I’m honestly grateful for today, in no particular order.

Fountain pens with olivey-mossy green ink. Moleskine notebooks and calendars. My darling animals, who are draped over various [...]

So here’s a confession: I’m not always good at staying positive.

You see, I’ve got a number of health problems, and they periodically flare up. And when they do, I might experience intense shooting abdominal pains, or I might be so unbelievably fatigued that the most I can do is drag my laptop to [...]