Tag Archives: Honor the Process

John Madden & My Fitness Pal web/mobile app

Oct

23

Are any of you using MyFitnessPal? Please consider friending me there, I could use the accountability help. Here’s the link to my profile: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/bwolsk1 My waist measurement isn’t in the healthy range. Though not, perhaps, to the level of John … Continue reading →

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The Book of Centering Prayer: Fathers Rohr & Keating

Aug

14

I’m increasingly curious and drawn to contemplative spiritual practices. I talk about this A LOT with my friends, but feel self-conscious writing about it, as though I were writing about sex. Since the mawkish 70s, spiritual searches get dismissed as … Continue reading →

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I.D. The Mystery Food [ iPhonography; August Edition ]

Aug

12

Roll forward when the going gets tough. I’ll post the answer to this food photo mystery on Tuesday. May the forks be with you. Click here to check out past mysteries, or click the Culinary Mysteries tab on the Categories … Continue reading →

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gamify = wake, play, focus, play, tweak, produce

Jun

15

If you decorate the hood of your minivan with a patchwork collage of household objects, aren’t you guaranteed to have fun commuting and running errands? This Minivan-Artist gamified her junk. (And it surely ain’t junk in the trunk, because she … Continue reading →

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Spring Cleaning My Portion Sizes

Apr

18

While I’ve been recipe-testing for my cookbook, I’ve been cooking and baking great foods, which is lovely, but I’ve gotten sloppier about portion control, which is not so lovely. My current weight is fine, but the scale’s going up and … Continue reading →

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Celebratory Discount & ABNA Contest Update

Mar

25

I’m proud to announce that I’m a quarter-finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest. In this third round, novels were judged on excerpts (the first 3,000 to 5,000 words). I entered Food and Worry, though I am equally proud of … Continue reading →

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Update

Feb

24

First, a grateful welcome to anyone visiting this blog for the first time via The Writer’s Center’s “First Person Plural” blog. I just checked out Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award Update for the zillionth time this morning and I made it … Continue reading →

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One Week in a Novelist’s Promo-Life

Feb

06

On this public version of my promo diary excerpt, I’ve removed specific names of the people and organizations that I reached out to. I don’t want to make any of them feel self-conscious if they turn down one of my … Continue reading →

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Quilt WIP Wednesday: Disappearing Nine-Patch

Feb

02

One month ago when I rolled out the New Year’s Resolutions, I thought I could get a Project Linus quilt done by the end of each month, but my January Project Linus quilt is still a work-in-progress. At least I’ve … Continue reading →

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Self-Publishing and Self-Formatting a Novel

Jan

20

I’m excited to announce that Leslie Pietrzyk (novelist/writer/literary blogger extraordinaire) just published an article I wrote about my self-publishing/self-formatting experience. The article appears on her Work-in-Progress blog, and it is a step-by-step overview of the lessons I learned from publishing my … Continue reading →

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