Streets of Gold
It’s December 30. Time to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. The last time I made a New Year’s resolution was in 2020. I had decided to take charge of my health by losing some weight in order to lower my blood pressure. In fact, I lost 70 pounds in 2020 and my blood pressure went from borderline problematic to low in the normal range. In addition I became a certified Health Coach in June of 2020. Unfortunately, over the next two years I put about half of that weight back on, but still, it’s a win. With that win under my (much smaller) belt, I decided to get back into daily writing. I had already started my new blog: Everyday Miracles [1] . But with only one post since its November inauguration, the inspiration I had enjoyed at the beginning had faded. What to do? Well, I used to teach creative writing. I always told my students to make a daily appointment with themselves: a minimum one hour in their most creative time of day (eight in the morning for me). During that hour t...