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One morning before dawn, I rolled over, grabbed my phone, and posted on social media.
I wrote that if I ever started a local landscaping company, I would call it "Atplanta."
Then, I started my day. Hours later, I had completely forgotten that I had created and shared this silly pun on my city's name, and it made me laugh when I came across it again.
Read MoreI enjoy sailing. There’s nothing better than being out on the water on a sunny day, cruising along with the warm breeze on your face, removed from the cares of life on land, enjoying a new perspective.
However, sometimes it’s not like that at all. The wind might be bitterly cold. Or there’s so much fog you can’t see anything. Or the water’s so choppy you get unpleasantly damp. Or you get rope burns. Or the wind suddenly dies, and you’re forced to row home.
Read MoreWhen my nephew was about three, he interrupted dinner to make a pronouncement.
“All of da gwonups!” he said, emphatically addressing his grandparents, parents, and me. “We have a ploblem!”
The “ploblem” turned out to be that he wanted someone to play cars with, and he didn’t have too much trouble solving it.
Read MoreA couple of summers ago, my husband and I decided that we wanted to learn to play tennis.
To begin our journey, we and I obtained some used racquets and dead balls at a local shop and then headed down to the neighborhood courts, as far away from other humans as we could get.
Then, we started tapping the ball back and forth over the net. Trying to, anyway. The balls bounced wildly all over the court and into the net. Movements were clumsy and awkward on my part, overly aggressive and baseball-like on his. We laughed a lot.
Read MoreWhen we're learning something new, it can be discouraging to compare ourselves with more established artists.
It can almost make you want to put down the guitar, step away from the watercolors, or get off the stunt motorbike.
The first thing to do is close out Instagram or Facebook or wherever you're watching people make art instead of doing it yourself. Social media can be great for inspiration, but it's easy to overdose on consuming instead of creating.
