Perfect Moment

Perfect Moment Monday: Done! (stage one)

May 27, 2012

Thanks to so many of you and my very supportive family, I have finished the first draft my my manuscript (with Crystal’s help)! I have three more months to spit and polish and to build the frontmatter and backmatter sections before I submit it to the publisher. Then the REAL spitting and polishing begins. Because [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: Core issue

April 22, 2012

Core! That’s what my yoga teacher focuses on in class Tuesdays and Thursdays. She’s come up with all sorts of core-building poses and movements to torture us strengthen the structures of our torsos. I rarely seek out additional opportunities to work my core. But one came up this month. One night, Tessa, Reed and I [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: It’s fun to play at the YMCA

March 25, 2012

Sometimes a perfect moment is a breezy, gradual unfoldment that lands on my shoulder like a butterfly. And sometimes a perfect moment is a whoosh of bliss, gushing through my entire being, shot directly from the Universe. This month I got to combine some favorites in many categories: activity, music and people. The activity was [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: On the piano bench

February 26, 2012

Tessa has taught herself  Heart and Soul on the piano, and we’ll often play it as a duet (“often” as in a bazillion times a day). The other night she asked me to play her a different song, so I pulled out my sheet music from Edvard Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, which I labored [...]

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