I always felt creative and secretly wanted to be seen as a creative person, but the scientific evidence to the contrary always made me question myself. My whole life I have been very right-hand dominant, meaning I am left-brained dominant. I am organized, logical, precise and detail oriented. When I type, my words are often…
Category Archives: Writing & Creativity
Ten-Day Sabbatical Recap
Well, my ten-day sabbatical away from my ‘day-job’ has ended and Monday is here. It was an absolutely fabulous week. Fun. Productive. Exhilarating. Exhausting (in a good way). Relaxing. And Creative. I did just what I said I was going to do. I wrote every day, meditated every day, got my new website up and…
Avoiding self-censorship and finding my way to authenticity via my Tribe
I sometimes find myself censoring my thoughts and avoiding writing about things I am passionate about or that reveal too much of who I am. It is partly because many of the people who currently receive The Dreaming Café’s weekly email message and read this blog are family, friends and co-workers, people I have known…
Ten-Day Sabbatical
Today begins a ten-day sabbatical from my ‘day job’. As this time approached I was making myself crazy about how I would spend my time. First, I planned to take several day trips and visit independent bookstores. I planned to create my own writing workshop at home and follow one of the outlines in the…
A difficult decision, but the right choice…
Spend 10-days in Tuscan and attend the First Annual Book Festival at the University of Arizona and take a week long writing course with Sheila Bender, author of WRITING AND PUBLISHING PERSONAL ESSAYS. OR Pay off my Toyota Rav4 six months early. Spending 10-days in Tuscan, meeting writers, both published and unpublished and learning and…
Envy
A friend of mine recently expressed his desire to start taking pictures again. I have seen some of the pictures he has taken in the past and they are very good. But, even though more than one person has commented on this fact he has never taken his interest seriously, until now. This afternoon he…
Finding 'flow'
I was late for work yesterday because I ‘got lost’ in my dream. I was up by 330am, meditated for 20 minutes, ate breakfast, showered, dressed and was sitting in my home office writing by 430am. As I wrote, time seemed to stand still, or fly by, depending on how you look at it. As…
The FUN Factor: Turning ideas and dreams into reality…
I LOVE ideas and dreams. I love to think about problems and brainstorm solutions. Ideas are what dreams are made of. But, I have discovered something I love more than ideas and dreams…turning them into reality! Over the years I have dreamed of being a writer, helping people, making a difference in the world, and…
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