mom

Dear Reader, Apologies for not posting lately. This has been a rough week. My mom is ill (severe early onset senile dementia – diagnosed at 55 y.o.) and last Thursday she ended up in the ER. Since then she has been moved into a skilled nursing facility which is both good (my dad is tapped […]

‘Tis Written in the Stars

Hello Dear Reader, I am fortunate that today is a short day on the day job due to the upcoming winter break. Normally I would be in a meeting at this time of day and today I am free!!!! So, I am taking advantage of this opportunity to sit at my desk and add a […]

Week One Check In

Hello Dear Reader, Each week of the Artist’s Way ends with a check-in: Did you do your Morning Pages every day? Did you keep your Artist’s Date with yourself? What came up for you that was surprising? that sort of thing. I wrote my check in last night, but thought I’d make a habit of […]

The Purpose Driven Blog

Dear Reader,I have been thinking about this whole blog thing, idea, as i troll around the Internet (just as i warned myself not to…you may notice this is a bad habit of mine). It seems like a good idea to share with you the purpose of my blog, it’s raison d’etre, so to speak. Since […]

Don’t even go there

Dear Reader, I think it really is best to not spend time crawling around the blogosphere…it’s really a buzzkill for a new blogger. Just in case you were thinking of starting a new blog to encourage your writer self and thought it a good idea to see what else is out there – you know, […]

Welcome to Vinegar and Vanilla

Hello, and welcome to Vinegar and Vanilla. I know I am not writing to anyone tangible out there in web land…yet. But I hope that some day I will be. In the meantime I am going to borrow an old-fashioned style and say, Dear Reader. For some reason I get a kick out of that, […]