Personal Development with Gray Miller
I tend to travel a great deal. It makes it kind of tough, at times, to maintain a connection with the ones I love. That may seem strange in the age of so many social media connections and such, but that’s only if you forget about the idea of signal-to-noise. Yes, I can post an …
I mentioned in last week’s podcast that I’m really not one for coming up with “End-of-Year” articles (or even “Beginning-of-Year”; if I’d gotten the Self Journal in June, I would have started my review then). And this one doesn’t really count, because it’s not original. My friend Spike has had a tough year in 2015. …
The Greatest Thing Happened To Me …just the other morning. Because of some scheduling changes, my Middle Daughter and I were doing our coding course at 7am. We’ve just finished the PHP section of the course, and if that doesn’t mean anything to you, rest assured it doesn’t mean a whole lot more to me at …
Merry Christmas. Whether you celebrate or simply endure it, I hope you find some love, peace, and joy this season. Thanks for reading.
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” —Malcolm S. Forbes. In line with the theme of the last few posts about how bad we are at predicting our futures, I recently had something happen that reinforced the principle above. I can’t pretend …
Here’s what could have happened: angry feelings of betrayal, the pain of secrets kept in plain sight but not talked about, judgement and defensiveness and anger and stress. That’s not what happened. Here’s how it came out, instead: A Meddlesome Love One of my daughters is moving in a couple of days. Natasha and I …
I’m happy to welcome my partner Natasha to the blog with this guest post. Her company, Domestic Systems Solutions, helps people create space and relieve stress in their homes and workspaces. I asked her to write about that great concept: the Spark of Joy. As I start writing this post, I realized that there are quite …
Even though there’s still four whole days left of NaNoWriMo, this is the last Friday. And on Fridays I write about love, so this is my last chance to tell you why I love you. I do. I don’t care if you’re 20 words or 65,354 words into your NaNoWriMo journey right now. I frikkin’ …
I am not one to romanticize writing, especially as a profession. While I’m a big fan of Do What You Love as well as Follow Your Passion, I’ve agreed to not harp on that for at least a while (especially since other people like Mark Manson are doing it for me). But the idea that you can …
We’re well past the first week, and you’re getting an idea now of what the rest of the month is going to be like. I’m not talking abou you, Writer, but your partner. Yes, you, Writer’s friend/lover/spouse/child/parent. “Manic” is often a word people like you – the companions of writers – use to describe behavior of …