For most of my life, I’ve had my head buried in a book. Things just never felt right if I didn’t have another world to escape to. Last summer, though, on my journey through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, I got out of my comfort zone and put myself through a week of reading deprivation. [...]
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When I was in seventh grade, I borrowed a tape from Kelly, who got it from Sharon (who borrowed it from her older sister) and listened to it on my Walkman at the playground. It was a cool evening, and the kids from the neighborhood gathered on yellow and red monkey bars. I ignored them. [...]
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When I started college, I didn’t have a computer. I had never been on the internet, either, so when someone told me I should check it out, I had to write down the steps it took to insert a “URL” into a “tool bar.” What was this “world wide web” business? In pencil on yellow [...]
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To the outsider, SuperWoman hasn’t changed at all due to her reading diet. She is still using her laser eyes to watch the goings on in the neighborhood, like the wolf-dog who miraculously gets out of his front door and wanders around the street, or the mail carrier who keeps changing his sex from one day [...]
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This week, I am on a reading diet. I am skipping all reading—whether it be blogs I love (sorry!), novels, articles, news stories (meh!), Facebook and Twitter statuses…you name it. It’s a challenge, for sure. But I am ready, and willing and eager to see where it takes me. (Actually, to be blunt, I’m hoping [...]
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I’ve been trying to keep up with Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, though my old, familiar guilt would tell you that I am not living up in a number of ways. Each chapter, or “week,” is filled with philosophy of how to bring out your inner artist, as well as tasks to help you get [...]
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