by Lisa-Jo | Dec 30, 2011 | Blogging, Five Minute Friday, Writing
What a week. What a collection of posts – nearly 200 hundred delicious confections. What a feast. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for reading. Thank you for encouraging so many. For my part, I’m so grateful to each one of you for being part of this space,...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 26, 2011 | Blogging, Writing
We did this last year. We took a day. One day. And sat around together, slumped over sofas, feet up on the coffee table, comfortably folded into chairs, across futons, stretched out on the floor and just reveled in each other’s stories. The stories that we...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 23, 2011 | Blogging, Callings, Writing
When was the moment you first believed you were a writer? My friends over at Write It, Girl, asked me that this week. I’ll share my answer if you’ll think about it and then come back and share yours too. I’m super curious. When was the moment you...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 4, 2011 | Blogging, Sweetstuff, Writing
Stop, drop, and write. That’s what we do for five minutes here on Fridays. No tweaking, no back-tracking, no self-editing. Just words. Lots of lovely words for a full five minutes. This week the prompt is:What’s the best mail you got recently – email, text, or...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 14, 2011 | Blogging, Five Minute Friday, Writing
So, here’s the skinny: I’ve been thinking about writing and how often our perfectionism gets in the way of our words. And I figured, why not take 5 minutes and see what comes out: not a perfect post, not a profound post, just five minutes of focused writing. No...