I’ve been in a lull the past few years, living my life in a holding pattern following some significant life events. I haven’t had the energy to devote to personal or professional goals. Instead, I’ve just held steady and kept things in my life as simple as possible. I’ve been calling this my fallow period. … More From Fallow Period to a path forward: Journaling for clarity
Ages ago, back when Twitter was fun, I recall interacting with someone from the blogging community who mentioned keeping a “blogging garden,” a central spot where they kept track of their thoughts and ideas for future blog posts. I loved this approach! I was inspired to immediately set up a Google doc, I even named … More Keeping a Idea Garden: Tending to My Inspiration
I had to look up the definition of fen. A fen is a type of wetland. It’s similar to marshes, bogs and swamps. Not surprisingly, landscape plays a key role in many of the enchanting tales in this collection of short stories from Daisy Johnson. The stories in Fen are anchored in the ordinary and humdrum. … More Fen by Daisy Johnson
I loved this book! Loved it. I feel like such a nerd, reading a book – cover-to-cover – about keeping a journal, but I don’t care because this book really, really helped me. Do you journal? If so, have you tried this method? Endless Lists I like writing things down. It makes be feel like … More The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll
In an earlier post, “The Purpose of The Seventeenth Line is to Connect with Readers Around the World,” I talked about the reasons why I decided to relaunch The Seventeenth Line. At the time I was finding it hard to concentrate on reading and I wanted to start a reading related project. As I started to … More Creating Categories for this Blog
I’m having a tough time getting into the rhythm of writing and posting on a regular basis. I originally started this blog over a decade ago to keep track of what my bookclub, The Seventeenth Line, was reading. Since re-launching this blog in 2020 I’ve spent most of my time reading through my older posts, … More Looking Back and Looking Ahead
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was my first introduction to reading science fiction. I must confess, I read this book to help a highschool boyfriend write a paper for his English class. A bit of advice, if he doesn’t … More How I Came to Love Science Fiction – or – A Few Thoughts on Ray Bradbury
When I first started The Seventeenth Line for my bookclub back in 2008 blogging still felt pretty new and I had no idea how to organize things. Categories, tags, posts, pages – who cared what all that meant! I just wanted a space for my bookclub to keep track of what we read and what … More The Purpose of The Seventeenth Line is to Connect with Readers Around the World
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