2021 Year In Review / 2022 Word of the Year
Happy New Year!
I have really struggled this year in writing this post, not because I had trouble with choosing a word – this year that was the easiest part of this process. The difficult part is writing a post that recaps last year…READ MORE
2020 Year In Review / 2021 Word of the Year
Once again a year has come and gone at a pace that seems to increase the older I get. For 2020 though, there were plenty of reasons; many of them were not good. My intention to choose a word of the year for 2020 was lost in the churn. READ MORE….
2018 Year in Review / 2019 Word of the Year
Happy New Year! It has become a tradition, I am closing chapter 2018 with a review of how my word of the year turned out, and choosing a word for the new year. For those of you that don’t know, back in 2015, at the beginning of a journey that would change my life…To continue, CLICK HERE
2018 Word of the Year
Happy New Year! It has become a tradition for me that, as we start another trip around the sun, I choose a word to guide me through the coming year. To continue, CLICK HERE
2016 Word of the Year and Review
As I sit here in the last hours of 2016, I look back on a year that continued in the arc that was started in 2015. I continued to nurture and grow my creativity. I finished my first novel, The Empire, that will be published next week, and had one of the happiest and fulfilling years ever. I feel really lucky. For me, 2016 was a fantastic year! To continue, CLICK HERE
2015 – Emergent – A Year In Review
2015 was a very productive year for me, personally and creatively. The word “emergent” proved to be an accurate choice. As I had promised myself, I kept my eyes and self open, and let the universe chart my course. I was not disappointed. There were challenges and lessons to be learned, and also a lot of wonderful adventures and opportunities. I pushed myself in directions that were not always comfortable, but usually fulfilling. To continue, CLICK HERE
I stalled and sputtered with this blog last year…I guess I just wasn’t ready. 2014 was a busy year. It was full of discovery, loss, heartache, joy, restoration, evolution and many creative adventures that have now begun to fill me up. I began pushing out all the negativity, stress, unhappiness, and soul sucking day to day living that had left me feeling like an empty shell.
I struggled with finding a direction for this blog. I got too caught up in trying to structure and define it. The outcome of this blog last year is a good reflection of what my life has been like for a long time – trying to make my life fit into an acceptable format for public consumption, instead of focusing on creating a life I want. That’s all in the past. To continue, CLICK HERE
I read a wonderful blog entry from my friend Melissa of MelissaDell.com about the idea of having a word of the year. The word being chosen would be a running theme or framework for the year. I had no idea this was a thing. I know the media keeps track of popular and trending words, but apparently defining one’s individual word, as well as exploring and incorporating it in daily life, is a very popular concept in the blogging world. It also fits right in with what I’m doing in this blog as well. In essence, this isn’t really new to me, I have been doing this for years in my personal journals…To continue CLICK HERE