For close to a decade, I’ve been observing the practice of choosing a word by which to live for the new year. This is inspired by One Word 365, and I have found it a preferable alternative to making resolutions. Most years that I’ve done this, I have experienced positive results: it has added greaterContinue reading “Flow: A Mid-Year Check-in”
Tag Archives: my journey (so far)
Happily Ever Again
A few years ago my daughter was telling a story that she either was trying to read or that she was making up herself. It easily could have been both, I suppose: perhaps she was turning the pages of a book and making up her own version of what she saw and the words sheContinue reading “Happily Ever Again”
No Music
I don’t think it’s much of a hyperbolic statement to say that music has saved my life many times. For a kid whose family moved several times before graduation and for whom loneliness and uncertainty was a regular companion, music was often a respite. My first tape player was one of those brown Fisher PriceContinue reading “No Music”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 