Monday, March 28, 2011

Hamlet's Blackberry

If any of you are like me, this will resonate with you.  Thanking Roman philosophy to help us understand how to deal with our own technology.  Now, how to best incorporate this into the family.  Any ideas?

Saturday, March 26, 2011

My new favorite site: 750 words (click this title if you want to go to the site)

Any who know me, know that I intend to write three pages long-hand every morning before the kids are up and the whirlwind of the day begins.  Any who know me really well, know that I actually only accomplish this when I have a writing deadline looming.

Thankfully, I started reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield the same week my sister found the delightful site entitled "750 Words." Pressfield believes we all resist doing anything that is good for our soul's evolution.  He even says this rule is so consistent that "we can use this resistance like a compass.  We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others" (12).

I determined to do no writing--finally--no matter what.

I was thinking about this concept when my sister told me of the site--meant to inspire writers and creative souls to write their three pages on the site and the site will reward you with badges and congratulations when you achieve your goal.  No one is actually reading what you write and yet, I find myself excited everyday to open the clean blue page (I hate white pages) and begin.  I feel I have accomplished something when the little bubbles congratulates me for writing my 750 words and it continues to keep track of how many words I have actually written. After years of trying to write everyday, I am finally actually doing it.  If any of you have ever tried to follow The Artist's Way and write everyday I hope you will check out the site.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Where You Can Find Me

It is lacrosse season again and so you will find me sitting on the sidelines screaming my guts out and watching J. Is there anything better than this?
Pinewood Derby!
Tom was happy to have won the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Saturday.

Will was happy to win the complimentary Pinewood Derby.

Heck, Will was just happy to have a car to race. 
After the race he turned to me, made that expression and squealed, "Mom, I did seriously well."  

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Happy Birthday

Well March 11 came and went and I never did see the new Jane Eyre. Friday morning I said good-bye to my Korean friend who spent a week with me for the first time in twenty-five years.  My heart was happy, but my head hurt from trying to dig into its depths to find those Korean words that use to fill my mind.  I climbed back into bed as the sun came up and at lunchtime, my children brought me breakfast in bed. 

I would have needed to travel to California or NY to see Jane Eyre, but it didn't matter. I was perfectly content to be surrounded by my children and husband.  The evening ended with me being certain that no one could be more content.  Maybe next year I can buy the DVD for my birthday and watch it with all my children snuggled with me on the giant couch.