21-Day Salutes™
Supposedly, it takes three weeks to change a habit. Or three weeks to give yourself a running start, anyway. These little 21-day observational writing exercises started out as a way to shake me out of a funk. But I soon recognized that they could be used for all kinds of other stuff, like…shaking me out of an observational not-writing funk. Anyway, here they are. Each series is in reverse chronological order, because that’s how this blogging thing works. But the series are listed in order of popularity, because… Well, because for all my hard-won, goddamned enlightenment, I understand that there’s a way things work.
Thank you, sir! May I have another?!™
A three-week program on cultivating gratitude. People liked this one a lot.
Scanning My #$@! Photos™
I thought this would be a fun way to share some personal memories and, at the same time, save a precious few against the horrible inevitability of natural disaster (we’re talking lots of Kodak Instamatic stock from the 1960s & 1970s). Watch for recurring cameos of my disturbing, “Where’s Waldo?”-like hand.
Stop! Sucking!™
Yeah, yeah—I have a tendency towards existential crises. I swear, I try to turn them into something useful, not just whiny navel-gazing.
Cheering the Hell Up™
The series that started it all. The BF (rightly) called me on a fearsome bout of crankiness; I documented my efforts to snap out of it on communicatrix-dot-com and a tradition was born.
The Zen of Everything™
Start anywhere. Examine. Process. Move forward. These 21 days each focus on one “way in”–some big, some small. Some miniscule. (And some, ridiculous.)
Cleaning My Damned Apartment™
Sometimes, your space gets away from you. Every good FlyLady fan will tell you that consistent application is the road to salvation.
Nerd Love™
With the exception of the popular “How Not to Write a Sucky Newsletter” entry, not as much how-to nerdery as I’d hoped.
Image by matt.hinsa via Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.
