Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On my philosophical wanderings through how our histories shape what we value now. We are where we’ve been. Biography is the journey to what we value now. And we have no choice but to bring our histories with us. Worn on our sleeves, in our heads, and in our selves. (Philosophical much?)

singing the glories of no-nonsense stationery basics. Simplicity is its own flashy when inks, papers and pens simply work well together. There’s happiness to be had in a simple gray or sepia or blue or teal. Or black notebook-lette.

Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On how dang useful fear is in the creation process. Creating, for me, is a frightful-scary game of chasing projects that scare me to take on.

Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On remembering that there is only one rule in journaling. That rule: do you. Successful writing is starting to write again.