Read this on galpod.com. Happy Friday! Today's writing prompt is inspired by Charles Dickens. What would the ghost of Christmas Past show...

Read this on galpod.com. Paul Valéry said that an artwork is never finished, merely abandoned. If you try to figure out how do you know...

Read this on galpod.com. My Love, My, how you’ve grown this year. It has been an emotional year, a year of hard-earned success (you got...

Read this on galpod.com. Uncertainty is hard for humans, generally speaking. Not knowing what will happen, the thought of losing control,...

Read this on galpod.com. The first thing anybody who knows anything about blogging advises beginner bloggers is that consistency is key....

Read this on galpod.com. What does it mean to lead a successful life? We all think about it. Sometimes, it's too scary to think about, so...

Read this on galpod.com. I’ve been thinking about health lately. Not only because my daughter has a head cold and had to stay home from...

Read this on galpod.com. This word trail also came about while I was reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It occurred to me that the...

Read this on galpod.com. I recently finished Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. It really should be used as mandatory reading for school...

Read this on galpod.com. I've been thinking about stories lately. Mot the kind we write but the kind we tell ourselves. I put up on...

Read this on galpod.com. Curiosity killed the cat, is the adage. But it's also one of our most basic emotions as human beings. Without...

Read this on galpod.com. If you've been reading this blog a while, you know that I love the beginning of the school year. I love school,...

Read this on galpod.com. The school year has begun in our household, which I thought would give me more time for a post but no such luck....

Read this on galpod.com. I’ve been thinking lately about becoming. Austin Kleon, a very good person to follow if you like to think about...

Read this on galpod.com. Happy Friday! An ongoing argument with my generally reliable laptop got me thinking about the technology we...

Read this on galpod.com. Over the past few weeks, I’ve worked through John Fox’s course on writing sentences. I like his enthusiasm, and...

Read this on galpod.com. I finished reading Snowflake last night. I had put it on my list because I heard the author, Louise Nealon, on...

Read this on galpod.com. I’m not a visual person. I mean, to the extent that humans experience the world mainly through their eyes, sure,...

Read this on galpod.com. I like the idea of a creative writing prompt every Friday. I'll give it a whirl; let me know what you think....

Read this on galpod.com. When I was 14, I babysat and cleaned houses and worked at the library and earned enough money to buy two pairs...