by DianeMPRiis | Nov 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on: Are all creative people midnight owls? (dealing with insomnia as an artist or writer) While I can only speak of my own experience, it’s not difficult to recognize that many famous creative people were up late “burning the midnight oil.” We can...
by DianeMPRiis | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
I look up from stirring sauce and my eye twitches. The cherry tree has disappeared and the window is black. Is the shadow beyond the glass a someone or a something? Then everyone comes home, piling in. Summer closing down has me suspicious and unbalanced; “off”,...
by DianeMPRiis | Aug 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do you need a sign? This is it. Florence Scovel Shinn was a New Thought author from the early 20th century, which was the school of thought that evolved into the Law of Attraction spirituality. I found a compilation of all her books at the thrift shop on Saturday....
by DianeMPRiis | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
The movie Jaws changed the beach for lots of us (of a certain age) forever. For at least one summer none of us kids went in the water. We just lay on the sand without sunscreen, vying for that Coppertone tan. I remember my friend Lauren fell asleep with her arms over...
by DianeMPRiis | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
I don’t care what happens to you, it means something. Never mind whether or not you caused it through your negative, out- of–the-vortex thinking. I am not talking about your subconscious childhood programming that blocks you from wealth or success or healthy...
by DianeMPRiis | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Well, Hello Again I am on a month-long book tour with Bewitching Books Tours and this article is from one of guest blog opportunities. I write about one of my favorite topics – gardening. I have a micro flower farm on Long Island, where my grandparents farmed a...
