by jlouden | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Uncategorized
Our theme at the weekly Oasis for July has been Pleasure and Freedom. I usually take each theme to heart, reading about it, cogitating on it, turning it over in my mind and heart. I was rewriting my book (it’s due this Friday to my editor!!) and I was getting...
by jlouden | Jul 16, 2019 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Uncategorized
I wanted to share a picture of my daughter Lillian and me during her spontaneous visit to see Bob and me this week. Lilly lives in Seattle. She stayed in the PacificNorthWest after we moved to Colorado four years ago, as did my bonus son Aidan. It’s the only thing...
by jlouden | Jul 10, 2019 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Uncategorized
A simple idea has revolutionized my writing life and made writing my book so much easier. It does not involve any of the weird writing productivity rituals you read about in writing books and blogs. I’m not writing naked tied to my chair until my husband Bob releases...
by jlouden | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
I spent a big chunk of March in Patagonia (Chile and Argentina) trekking and trail running with my husband and bonus son Aidan. The landscape dwarfed any I’ve ever been in. We drove through native grasslands with nary a fence in sight. We hiked into a basin beneath...
by jlouden | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Last week we talked about how to recover when you’ve broken a promise you made to yourself. This week, let’s illuminate how to make promises you can keep. Most of us never learned how to make clear promises to ourselves. And that causes us a whole lot of unnecessary...
by jlouden | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Without you getting any writing done? Another day without writing or painting or working out or finally trying out those new recipes? Another day when everything and everybody else took precedence. Or you started but then didn’t know what exactly to do so you got...