Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
-
So many ways to use time, so many alluring possibilities, so many things to try, so many changes to attempt. There’s a productivity guru — David Allen — who has written a book and created a website titled “Getting Things Done.” He offers strategies for getting more accomplished “with ease and elegance.” In my experience,…
-
Looking for some William Butler Yeats poetry today brought me around to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, with a reminder of how powerful writers from the past seed the future. Mitchell’s rich lyrical legacy is her own, of course. But for one song, she recast Yeats’ poem Second Coming and put it to haunting music. I didn’t…
-
Bring it on! In her book on making changes, behavioral economist Katy Milkman calls it the fresh start effect. Everybody else calls it New Year’s resolutions. I love them and I do them, and sometimes they do me proud. Buying and reading Milkman’s book “How to Change” gave me a suite of tools to help…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 