What a bird’s determination can teach writers about not giving up.
Category: Essays
Bees and sneezes—It must be spring
Spring is the time when the bees are hyper, the pollen rules, and the allergies overtake the day. Why do we keep torturing ourselves over flowers?
At least we don’t eat earthworms
The correlation among robins, writers, instinct, and perseverance. And what robins can teach us about contentment.
Was that wall always there?
Daylight Savings Time affects all of us physically and psychologically. How do we manage to trudge through the day when we are sleepwalking?
Good enough is better than being a stubborn plant root
A lesson in learning that “good enough” is better than aiming for perfection in our writing.
Ode to not freezing on the way to the mailbox
After nearly two weeks of bone-chilling temperatures, there was enough warmth keeping me from freezing on the way to the mailbox.