What’s on the iPod: Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen (this is my favorite version) It was great to have the Springsteen song (link above) show up on my iPod this morning. The UPenn FM station WXPN named it #1 in their list of All-time Greatest Songs. Agreed. As the holiday speeds up on us, I’m spending…
Tag: New Year’s resolutions
Revamping Your Writer Resolutions
What I’m reading: The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies What’s on the iPod: Stolen Dance by Milky Chance The week has been good so far: my first published poem is now out. Please check it out here. Also, I got word that another poem has been accepted. My master plan to dominate the world one…
Happy Resolution Day
What’s on the iPod: So Long, Sweet Misery by Brett Dennen If you heard rejoicing yesterday, that would be me. Yesterday was an AMEN day. As I sat trying to get the meat of an article and two small projects completed, a favorite client came knocking with not one, but two projects due by the…
Resolving Not to Resolve
I hate resolutions. Never has there been any other form of self-promise and goal setting that was doomed to fail at the outset. We make them and instantly break them. Why? Because we aim too high, dream beyond our own abilities, bite off more than we can chew (or chew more than we should –…
Your Mid-Year Report Card
Remember those resolutions you made 6 months ago? Remember January 1, 2008? Remember how fresh and new that day, that new year was? Remember feeling like reinventing yourself or your career? So how are you doing with those? Thought I’d forget about them, didn’t you? Not a chance. See, I don’t do resolutions per se….