I’m a little late (hey, give me some leeway; I’m a professor at the start of a semester!) on my monthly insight, but you have to understand. . . I’m on my honeymoon. Of course, I mean my writer’s honeymoon. That period where you’re just starting a novel. Maybe you’ve started writing the first draft,Continue reading “Writing Insight: August –The Honeymoon Phase”
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Cowardice and Limitations
While we are shying away from the things that make us feel cowardly, we are missing out on making a new friend, having an adventure, or just learning something new. Growth does not happen in the midst of cowardice. Instead it limits us and our potential. I often feel cowardice the most when I have toContinue reading “Cowardice and Limitations”
It’s OK to be Angry (or anything else) After Job Loss
I was leaving a store one day when a former co-worker called out to me. This was the first time I had seen her since the company lay-off, and I wasn’t really expecting to see anyone I knew (I never am), so I was surprised when I saw her in the store’s uniform. After talkingContinue reading “It’s OK to be Angry (or anything else) After Job Loss”
Anger and Krispy Kremes
It wells up from inside you like a burning lava rock that you formed somehow between your stomach and your liver and fueled by your thoughts. How does anger do that? It springs up fully potent, amazingly fierce, ready to be unleashed from its birthplace to spread its heat onto other (possibly unsuspecting) human prey.Continue reading “Anger and Krispy Kremes”
What do you feel?
Someone asked me this question recently, and I had to tell that person “Something!” It was a positive feeling; I just didn’t know what it was. Have you ever felt like days are just passing by you, yet you didn’t have any feelings outside of the small victories or irks of a daily routine? Sometimes IContinue reading “What do you feel?”
Y. M. NELSON 