In the next 6 months, I will do the following to nurture myself: 1. Stick with my weekly beauty regiment that includes a facial, body scrub, vegetarian meal and when possible a chick flick. 2. I will re-enroll in bellydance class wherever I can find and afford it. 3. I will spend a little time [...]

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Hi, I’m Di, and I’m a workaholic. I’m even typing this while sniffling embarrassingly from a head cold. Clearly, I have some conditioning to overcome, along with a new attitude to develop that translates into English as “do it yer damn self!” This chapter was hard for me. Harder than I expected going in. 1. [...]

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I’m still casting around for the right blog look – something fun, without the overbearing nature imagery you see on most perfume blogs. Something that meets both my technical and aesthetic needs. For the moment, it’s this. But we’ll see where it goes in the future. Share on Facebook

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I hope I never have to do this again. For Ronan Dewayne: I am a prayer to the heavens and I am a prayer to the Earth. I am a prayer to the Old ones, to living, the dying and birth. There will be moments of mourning and there will be moments of tears. And [...]

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Things that give me a sense of comfort: 1. Watching Finnian’s Rainbow I got rid of the last VHS I had of it because I got rid of my VCR. I really need to buy it on DVD. 2. A new piece of clothing This goes back to my childhood where it was really difficult [...]

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Yes, I did do 7 out of 7 days on my morning pages. I hope this dedication will soon translate to my workout schedule – it’s not about discipline, it’s about head space. I have started taking it easier on myself – I don’t get mad that every project I have isn’t done to total [...]

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I’m having this new epiphany series about listening to my soul/my inner artist after a second disappointing Artist’s Date. The Midtown Global market? Amazing for food. The shops, however, are starting to drag – it’s a lot of boring state fair crap right now. And while I need to eat and I enjoy cooking, my [...]

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This seems a little unnerving for me to post on my blog, but I committed to blogging this experience, so here I go. My visualization exercise, to write about what I want as if it has already happened: I am a published author. I write daily, sometimes from the road, as I tour and promote [...]

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Image via Wikipedia I actually had a wonderful day yesterday, blessed with Joel’s companionship, a lot of writing getting done, hilarious visuals and dinner while watching the sunset through my balcony window. The calm, gentle flow, however, was disrupted by something happening that was beyond my control as I discovered from an email message that [...]

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Image via Wikipedia This week was one of the weeks where I didn’t like the work so well. I did it, but it wasn’t something I enjoyed, and I realized why: as one tarot reader pointed out years ago, somehow I trained myself out of dreaming, and much of the exercises involved making our fantasies [...]

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