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Friday Prompt: Forest
Read this on galpod.com. A forest can be, depending on your point of view, menacing or peaceful, dark or dappled. The forest metaphor is...

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May 26, 20231 min read


How I Use ChatGPT to Help Me Write
Read this on galpod.com. There has been a veritable flood of posts about generative AI since ChatGPT came out. I’ve read several...

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May 23, 20235 min read


Friday Prompt: Power
Read this on galpod.com. Today I invite you to think about power. It can be in your life or your story. I suggest focusing on a specific...

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May 19, 20231 min read


Five Years of Blogging
Read this on galpod.com. Five years ago last week, I started blogging on this here blog. Of course, I was blogging before about parenting...

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May 16, 20234 min read


Friday Prompt: Audience
Read this on galpod.com. Today, and based on a recent discussion we’ve had in the writers’ group, I invite you to think about your...

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May 12, 20231 min read


On Joy and Balance
Read this on galpod.com. I’ve got a story within a story for you today. I thought a lot about how best to tell it, but I want to tell it...

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May 9, 20233 min read


Friday Writing Prompt: Joy
Read this on galpod.com. I’ve been trying to connect this week to the side of me that is happy to be alive. It has to do with my...

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May 5, 20231 min read


Thoughts on Israel, Democracy, Occupation, and Freedom
Read this on galpod.com. During Easter break, we visited Israel. I’ve been fretting about the situation there for a while now. I didn’t...

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May 2, 20233 min read


Friday Prompt: Conflict
Read this on galpod.com. Conflict is essential in stories, or so we are taught. So, today, I invite you to think about conflict. What...

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Mar 31, 20231 min read


Lifelong Learning
Read this on galpod.com. As part of our foundation work, I’ve been thinking a lot about learning and how we measure it, which got me...

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Mar 28, 20236 min read


Friday Prompt: Learning
Read this on galpod.com. Today, I invite you to think about learning. What does learning mean to you? How do you learn best? Why? When...

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Mar 24, 20231 min read


On Creativity and Motherhood
Read this on galpod.com. What I posted here last week was a first draft of a post for another blog that was looking for posts on...

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Mar 21, 20233 min read


Friday Prompt: Purpose
Read this on galpod.com. We use stories to help us make sense of the world. Making sense of the world often means finding meaning or...

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Mar 17, 20231 min read


Writing While Mum
Read this on galpod.com. Seeing as I have quite a bit of experience with that, I thought I’d share a few things I learned about writing...

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Mar 14, 20234 min read


Friday Prompt: Resistance
Read this on galpod.com. In psychology, resistance is a defence mechanism against things the ego perceives as threatening. In the context...

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Mar 10, 20231 min read


On Procrastination
Read this on galpod.com. I read a blog post on Bang2Write, one of my favourite sites, about how to deal with procrastination. I disagree...

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Mar 7, 20234 min read


Friday Prompt: Awe
Read this on galpod.com. I listened to the new episode of Hidden Brain this week, in which they discussed awe. It’s a fascinating...

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Mar 3, 20231 min read


Life is an Ocean
Read this on galpod.com. A few weeks ago, I went with friends to watch a play titled Live to Tell: A Proposal for The Madonna Jukebox...

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Feb 28, 20232 min read


Friday Prompt: Body
Read this on galpod.com. We spend quite a lot of our time ignoring our bodies. Our brain has evolved to ignore things that are habitual....

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Feb 24, 20231 min read


The Plateau
Read this on galpod.com. I’ve noticed recently that in “projects” that are not necessarily defined in time, there comes a sagging. You...

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Feb 21, 20233 min read
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