The photo above isn’t a great photo. I took it last month when I was lucky enough to be in NYC visiting with family. The weather was moody, shifting from sunny and warm to raining to cold. At one point, looking in three directions, we could see blue skies, but this was the view ahead…
“Why”…Wednesdays
176. Why Keep Learning
I took the photo above from a SocialWorker.com article about some social workers’ bad attitudes about mandatory continuing education credits. To be clear, social workers aren’t in the only profession that requires continuing education nor are they the only ones who sometimes get bad attitudes about the “extra” work. I have to admit that I…
175. Why “Yes…And”
I’m not the first person to realize that the rules for improvisational theater work well as rules for life. I got the image above from the Rep Man website, which will happily sell you this poster. I don’t do improvisational theater, but I’ve been thinking about what a great rule for life “yes, and” is….
174. Why Now
This morning, I took a Peloton Yoga class taught by Kirra Michel, pictured above. (Screenshot from her Wellness Rebellion website.) Wow–check out that balance, strength, and flexibility. I did not get into this pose, am not able to move as she does, but I can listen to and appreciate her words just as well as…
173. Why I’m a Real Writer
Rachael Herron is an amazing author, who’s written romance, mystery, memoir, and nonfiction about writing. She’s on the NaNoWriMo board. She also hosts the weekly How Do You Write? podcast, of which I’m a big fan. On the show, she interviews authors about their writing processes. I’m pretty sure that someday, she’s going to want…
172. Why a Poem
I selected the image above from the results of a Google search for “out of your comfort zone” (a phrase I don’t love). The photo appears in a sale-pitch-type article on the Successful Culture International website. (If you’re a CEO who wants help being a better leader, you might read the article and/or hire the…
171. Why I Can’t Even
[I took the image above from the teacher-starter website.] We all know the joke about the kid who answers only questions 1, 3, 5, and 7 on the math test, and when the teacher asks why, the kid says, “I can’t even.” Well, I’ve been feeling that joke has some kind of cosmic connection to…
170. Why Tropes
I don’t know why I was surprised to see that an image search for “comfort food” came back with so many cheesy photos. Yum. I took a screenshot of part of the screen, which is the thumbnails you see above. We had a guest speaker a few years ago at Hotchkiss, back when being a…
169. Why Not “At the End of the Day”
What you see above is a screenshot of my Google image search for “at the end of the day.” I never noticed this expression much until the last year or so. Now, I’ve heard it so often I decided to stop to think about it. When I dug down into what it stands for, I…
168. Why I Love the First Few Pages
I took the image above from a post with writing tips about how to create a terrific opening chapter, and it’s got important advice for writers, but I will approach today’s post as a reader. I love reading the first two chapters of every romance novel. We all know how romance novels will end –the…