I'm doing a Gratitude Writing Challenge in lieu of NaNoWriMo this year. What a fitting four categories to be grateful for all at once: memory, work, change, peace. Memory // Work I remember when the life I have now was a life I dreamed about. I remember dreaming not so loudly about being an administrator. … Continue reading Memory, Work, Change, Peace
Author: Suzanne
"I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere." - Anis Mojgani
Creativity
I am participating in a Gratitude Writing Challenge this month. I love creativity! Mine and other people's. I love having an idea of how something should or could look and then making it happen by cutting and gluing things together and moving and painting and tying. I love dreaming up people who wouldn't otherwise exist and … Continue reading Creativity
Nature
This month I'm participating in a Gratitude Challenge. Just being in nature and looking at nature - living things that are green and orange and yellow and pink and swaying in the breeze - fills me up with a sort of power. The past couple of years I have been more aware than ever of … Continue reading Nature
Music
This month I’m participating in a Gratitude Challenge. Whenever anyone asks me what I miss most about living in the States I answer thusly: "libraries, soft pretzels, and my family." If I think about it though, another thing I miss is the opportunity to be in a choir. I was able to participate in a choir … Continue reading Music
Knowledge & Love
This month I'm participating in a Gratitude Challenge. I realized recently that the reason I'd rather have someone tell me the answer to a question than look it up online for myself is because I'm an auditory learner. There are four learning styles - visual, auditory, kinestetic, and reading/writing. Now one might think, based on … Continue reading Knowledge & Love
Gratitude Challenge
Every November for the past six years I have participated in NaNoWriMo. If you don't know what it is, just Google it. Last year I wrote just over 20,000 words and then just... stopped. This year, out of habit, I was planning on participating, but as October went on my excitement for November to arrive … Continue reading Gratitude Challenge
Feelings and Lessons from Dogs
Something I've been working on for the past *mumble* years is calming down, softening, and just generally chilling out. My emotions come fast and loose and when emotional I don't hold back. It has led me to say and do some things that I have regretted, hurtful things or things that when looked back upon … Continue reading Feelings and Lessons from Dogs
From the Ground Up
One of the reasons I moved to Jarabacoa from San Pedro de Macoris three years ago was to "build my life from the ground up." When I moved to San Pedro (three months after graduating from college), I felt very much like I was plopped down into a life. People I had never met before … Continue reading From the Ground Up
Like A Girl
I am a decisive person. I like to make my decision and stick with it. I'm not much for looking back with regret or wondering about how things might have been different (at least not in an emotional way - sometimes for a thought experiment I think about how my life might be different if … Continue reading Like A Girl
Being fat, Fab 5, and living in tension
I have always had what I call a healthy self esteem. Despite being overweight since puberty (but was I though? like, my memory tells me I was chunky in high school but when I look back at pictures I don't see it), I've never felt, or at least never felt that I felt, less than … Continue reading Being fat, Fab 5, and living in tension
