Following up on last week’s post, where I did something scary and posted a poem, I’ve decided to start my first weekly feature on the blog. From now on, Thursdays will be for poetry. Sometimes that means I’ll post a poem, other times it means I will talk about poetry I [...]
That directive is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, and lately, I’ve been trying to do it.
I’m not talking about things that make me fear for my personal safety (I will not, for example, be trying any of the activities currently being aired on the Winter Olympics any time soon) but rather things that make my stomach [...]
A year ago today, I tentatively dipped my toe into the blogging water.
I wasn’t really sure what w.p.r. would become, but I’m so, so glad I just started.
If I had waited until I had a concise plan,
waited until the coast was clear of criticism,
waited until Steve the Internal Editor told me it was a great [...]
Ok, so you’ve done all the prep work needed to get the ball rolling, and you’ve gotten started… but then you reach a point where you just feel “stuck”. You show up every day to work on your project and nothing seems to bubble to the surface. Believe me, I’ve been there.
Here are some things [...]
