Skinny Bitchin’ is one superb little book. I found it in the remainders bin at Fry’s drugs in Mesa, Arizona last May. Here’s the Skinny (pun deliberate) on the book: Title: Skinny Bitchin’ Sub-title: A “Get Off Your Ass” Journal to Help You Change Your Life, Achieve Your Goals, and Rock Your World! Authors: Rory…
I first started using Poetry to ‘access my ‘felt intuition’. What the hell is Felt Intuition? you ask. I don’t know but it kinda looks/feels like this … it’s the emotions/feelings I have about stuff that are LOCKED inside me so fiercely that when you ask me, “what ya feeling Lyle?” I respond, “Don’t know!”…
Holidays are just a few weeks away! What ‘should be’ relaxing often creates MORE stress. Here are 8 Type-based Stress Busting secrets from Psychometrics.
My most favourite seller of books just announced it’s “Best of the Noughties” — the best books of the last decade. My best series is …. Ta da …. Gabaldon’s Outlander! After all not only is she THE BEST story teller it is her approach to writing that created the NAME I use to characterize…
All of us have ‘words that move us! (quotes) The loverly bitches over at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books are co-sponsoring a nifty little contest with Sony called Words That Move Me. Would you like to win a Sony Pocket Digital Reader? Then scoot on over here to SBTB and follow the instructions. Easy peasy! CAUTION:…
How far can I flex before I break? I’m not sure if it’s my allergies or the constant overwhelm or just being an ‘old fart’ but lately I’m feeling really pissy about being asked to flex and change. And, for some reason this morning I got thinking about Gumby. Gumby arrived as a regular ‘performer’…
CREATIVE CAREERS UNLEASHED! #96 What happens when you actually do find “work that doesn’t suck” but then … that work — part-time, full-time, or contract — chews up most or all of your energy and time? Okay. Maybe, that’s a bit dramatic. But, it IS how it feels to me sometimes. As much as I…
I got some interesting feedback from my last post, “The Lure of Easy Money”. Here’s what my client Steve said, “One thing I might say (from my perspective) is that the money AIN’T easy… (If this is easy, I hate to think what hard money would be like :-0 ) and it’s not that I…
I’ve been there, done that, got the T-Shirt, and the Coffee Mug. Where? Doing a ‘job’ I hated, working a contract I loathed: justified by “the money”. When I turned 60, after spending 4 months in severe pain from my Fibromyalgia, I promised myself, “I’m not going to do work I don’t want to do….
Thanks all for your kind comments. I missed them cause I was busy getting ready for the teleclinc and the new gig. Oh, and I was also preparing to teach an Unsticking(TM) workshop to the writers who hang out at the Alberta Romance Writers Association. That one was called “Break Free … and Write!” It…