Chris Dunmire's Free Printable Valentine's Day Love Notelets
Spread more of your love around the world!

Looking for a little love to tuck into small sweet places? Print off a sheet of my free Valentine's Day Love Notelets™ to scribble your sweet nothings on! More »

Natalie Goldberg Interviewed on Creativity Portal
Author of 'Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within'

Did you know it's been 25 years since Natalie Goldberg wrote her classic Writing Down the Bones? More »

Sailing Through Blank Canvas Gridlock
A Lesson in Reality: Creativity Blocks & Unfinished Business

When’s the last time you gridlocked with a blank canvas? Not a painter? Don't need to be. We all face blank canvases (and creativity blocks) sooner or later in our creative work... More »

January Hike @ 20°F Writing Prompts
Do You Feed or Starve Cabin Fever?

More of the story that goes with the lessons, wonderings, and gratitudes below.

Lessons:

• It's possible to wear too many socks.
• Just because it's sunny doesn't mean it's warm.
• Ill-fitting boots are a bad idea, even if they "feel okay" for the first hour.

Wonderings:

• Are the animals comfortably warm?
• What are the deer finding to eat outside?
• Where was that mouse-size ground mole heading to before it fell over dead crossing the road?
• Do you feed or starve cabin fever?

Gratitudes:

• Sunshine, connecting with nature, animals.
• Warm clothes, self-regulating body, heat.
• Blue sky, frozen lake, shoreline ice. •

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