I miss staying up until the wee hours writing or making art. (If you have a fondness for the night and listen to podcasts, then listen to Nocturne, by the way. It's a favorite of mine.) So now on this sunny, pleasant afternoon, my projects await. They call. They trip me up. They beg. Finish …
No one is going to give me an award for being sensible. Marie Kondo worked on my books and my clothes. She doesn't work on my art supplies and unfinished stories. It's getting out of control in here. A sensbile person would get this work space in order and keep it that way! A few …
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The universe is exhausting sometimes. I say the universe as if I know how I'd feel living on some other planet in the Milky Way. (I'd feel dead, most likely.) I can't even say the world because I can't claim to know what's going in every bit of it. (I'm overwhelmed just thinking about knowing …
In one half of the world, winter unfurls and unravels blankets of ice and cold and spells. If this is where you find yourself, in long dark nights, listen for magic and starlight and bells. * I hope whatever season you're in is treating you well. I've kept a few New Year's resolutions! And I'm …
I was expecting different news. So, ever since my cancer diagnosis, I have gone regularly to my oncologist. You may be familiar with such a routine. At first you go in what feels like every other day and gradually, if things go well, you go in less and less. My appointments alternated too. One time …
Sorting through old papers, I came across stories my mom write in college. Keep in mind she didn't go to college straight out of high school. She was in her 40s when she went to USF. We were, in fact, in college at the same time (though not the same place). This piece is dated …
Perhaps this history could begin with the Big Bang, but instead I'll begin the day my mom left my dad, packing what would fit into her pale blue Volkswagen Beetle and heading to a new life. If the object didn't fit into that car, she didn't take it with her. She didn't come back for …
I still have my little altars of objects and treasured things. We still have hundreds of books. No one is ever going to walk into this house and say, "Are you a minimalist?" I feel that's important to make clear before I again mention that most trendy of lifestyle phenomenon names Marie Kondo and confess …
Maybe the word of the year, or at least of January, is Kondo. Have you Kondofied your home by any chance? I had no intention of watching Netflix's Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. I hadn't so much as picked up her book to judge the cover. But curiosity got the better of me (and I …
Resolutions take time to root. Most are caught by prevailing winds and carried off to the horizon, not seen again until perhaps a birthday or the next New Year. I've been thinking about resolutions and the wisdom and foolishness behind them. Obviously, a resolution can be made on any day. There is no cosmic law …
Marta Bacon 