Live With Flair

I wait all year for the blue sky, the golden leaves, and the perfect autumn weather to crunch in the falling leaves.

I’m learning to accept reality and not push against what I cannot change. It’s liberating. For example, I deeply value efficiency. But when you have

The Italian Mama tells me this lesson that it took her 10 years to learn: “Don’t push yourself. You need to rest to recover. It’s

My plans for a beautiful writing day ended at 1:00 AM when an 8 mm kidney stone announced itself. What followed? Pain! Pain till the

When a writing deadline approaches, you might want to think about planning writing days. I tell students to plan a writing day like it’s an

As you know, I love grammar. After teaching writing for 25 years, you’d think I would know everything about writing. You’d think I’d become bored.

It feels good to do nice things for strangers. Try it! Think about intentional kindness to strangers as a way to live with flair. If

I’m reading The Listening Life by Adam McHugh. In one chapter, McHugh talks about God as always listening and acting on what He hears. God

Yesterday, I read the lyrics to “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” (written by Isaac Watts in 1707). This verse captured my heart: Were the