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Category: goals
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Traditions and the Legacies They Reflect
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|9.9px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″] Over the holidays, I had time to reflect on our family’s traditions and how they’ve grown and morphed over the years. Impending life changes in our family hit me with the realization that more alterations to those customs are forthcoming. Through a…
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2025 Word of the Year
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|9.9px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″] For nine years now, I have chosen a Word of the Year. These words become touchstones for the opportunities, challenges and decisions of each year. Looking back over each of them shows me a roadmap of where I’ve traveled on this author…
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12 Months of Reading January 2025
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|9.9px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″] Welcome to January’s 12 Months of Reading! Each month in 2025, I will host a different reading challenge category. These categories are broad to fit a variety of reading preferences. The January 2025 12 Months of Reading Challenge category is: A Book…
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12 Months of Reading More Than a Challenge
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|9.9px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″] I love a good reading challenge, but more than that, I delight in watching readers and authors come together over the joy of a great read. That passion is the soul behind the 12 Months of Reading Challenge. In 2024, I started…
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12 Months of Reading: April 2024
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|9.9px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″] Welcome to 12 Months of Reading! Each month in 2024, I will host a different reading challenge category. These categories are broad, and, chances are, whatever you’re reading may fit in them. April’s book category is an epistolary. What’s that? you ask.…
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12 Months of Reading: January 2024
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in 12 Months of Reading, audiobooks, authors, books, fantasy, fiction, genre, goals, Indie Authors, libraries, library, literature, non-fiction, novel, novella, poem, poet, poetry, readers, reading, SciFi, short story, southern fiction, stories[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|12.9375px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ hover_enabled=”0″] Welcome to 12 Months of Reading! Each month in 2024, I will host a different reading challenge category. These categories are broad, and, chances are, whatever you’re reading may fit in them. January’s theme is a “peach” book—find a cover with the peach…
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Goal Setting & Rule Breaking
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”8px||0px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″] This blog post comes with a warning label. The process you’re about to read is not for beginners because I broke all the first-of-the-year rules. For Goal Setting 101, head to a post I wrote in 2018, “Resolving to Make Better…
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Creative Health Focus
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.5.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] On Christmas Day, I shared two photos with my family. Both were of me on the same day, in the same outfit. The differences were one year and nearly thirty pounds. Seeing the change side by side…
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