Category: Check Ins – Life and Work

Shake and Bake 89: Contemplating…the Contemplating…

Another quick work/life check in…. When does “living intentionally” slip over into… self-obsession? Enquiring minds want to know….

Walking My Way to Water: Week 7 – Connection (Creatrix/Crafter/WildMind Rampager)

I continue my trip through The Artists Way… gnawing on… the connection to the Creator in our work. And finding the balance between the Craft of Writing and the Free Flow of what I tend to call “wild mind”. Featuring the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez…

Shake and Bake 88: Resetting the Compass

Wherein Pam contemplates how to “keep the faith” on the long long journey that is writing a novel… and gets a kick from the universe to reset her compass and carry on.

Walking My Way to Water: Week 6 – Abundance

A stroll through Week 6 of The Artist’s Way…

Shake and Bake 87: Back in the Saddle Again

New Moon time – the leaves are turning…and Pam is back in the saddle…working away at this and that… with an eye to the moon and the elemental beauty of the whole shebang. Accompanied by Gene Autry.

Walking My Way to Water: Week 5 – Possibility (Finding Our Way to the River)

Pam lays out her ongoing adventures in The Artist’s Way. Week FIVE is filled with talk of grace and self compassion. Featuring a lovely rendition of “Down to the River to Pray”

Walking My Way to Water: Week 4 – Integrity (Life/Art/Life or…. SURVIVING without READING)

After a few weeks MIA…. Pam emerges with a big HULLO and some thoughts on Week Four of the Artist’s Way.

Walking My Way to Water: Week 3 – Power (Knocking SHAME on it’s Arse)

… a peek at my adventures during week three of The Artist Way. In Week 3, we look at Anger, Synchronicity, Shame, Dealing with Criticism, Detective Work (an exercise) and Growth. I seek the comfort of Bees.

Shake and Bake 86: The Ripe Berries, Open Hands, All In Edition

A new moon and a little Cherry Berry Wine….

Walking My Way to Water: Week Two – Identity (She Who Pays Attention)

And this… well this is just one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read…

“I remember her pointing down the steep slope from the home she was about to lose, to the cottonwoods in the wash below. ‘The ponies like them for their shade,’ she said. ‘I like them because they go all silvery in their green.'” – Julia Cameron The Artist’s Way

Finding My Bearings Now

A post-dramatic approach to breast cancer treatment - by a recovering drama queen

Starting Over

Because there's never enough time to do it right the first time but there's always enough time to do it over

Ailish Sinclair

Stories and photos from Scotland

Cathy Standiford

Historical fiction, poetry, essays

Finding My Bearings Now

A post-dramatic approach to breast cancer treatment - by a recovering drama queen

Starting Over

Because there's never enough time to do it right the first time but there's always enough time to do it over

Ailish Sinclair

Stories and photos from Scotland

Cathy Standiford

Historical fiction, poetry, essays