“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Managing My Day
So I open my email this morning and find a book recommendation: Manage Your Day-toDay: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind. That, dear ones, is the definition of heaven on earth. It’s a Shangri-La. Who would not want to buy the book? Goes to show the power of titling. I…
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Learning to Listen to Process
All morning, through prayer, solitude of drinking tea, a game of ‘Where’s My Water’ with Little Dude, then fixing breakfast for us, driving Little Dude to school, coming home and starting wash and feeding chickens and checking the catch-pans beneath the leaks in the attic in preparation of today’s expected rain, I’ve been listening to…
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Start Where You Are
Start where you are is the advice from Julia Cameron on writing, and from just about every sage on living. It really isn’t rocket science. Where else would one start? Figuring out where one is is the challenge. We have to do it ourselves. No one can do it for us, but there is help.…
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The Right to Write
It is incredibly warm and raining. It is coming down in great deluges and there was an episode of wind that had rain hitting the front windows far back on the porch, threw cushions out of the chairs. I opened the door and Punk, our old grey tabby, came to the door, but no amount…
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On the 3rd Day of the New Year
Brrr! Winter has landed, or rather sweeping in with wind. Roaring fire in the fireplace, and when I stepped outside for wood this morning, I heard the wintery sound of a hoot owl. Since this is only the 3rd day of the year, my word for the year–Hope– is fresh in my mind. Very often…
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Hope is the Word
Like many others of you, some years ago I gave up making New Year’s resolutions. I never was able to stick to any of them for more than a few weeks, at the most two months. I like to choose instead a word to help me through the year. This year’s word came instantly, when…
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Curtiss Ann Matlock 