by splendorinthesticks | May 11, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
During the first wave of lockdown during the pandemic, it was interesting to see how many of us found some degree of solace in the kitchen. Baking bread was a crazy fad for a little while, with banana bread and sourdough particularly enjoying a rush of popularity. I...
by splendorinthesticks | May 3, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
It seems as if there should be a word – likely originating in German – to describe that feeling of satisfaction tinged with bewilderment when you finish a huge project. The Joie posts haven’t fallen by the wayside deliberately, although I...
by splendorinthesticks | Apr 15, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
Time. It flies and crawls. We long to slow it down and we want it to hurry up. There’s kairos and chronos. There are deadlines and “to do” lists and crossed-off errands, chores, and tasks. We want to be mindful, yet don’t think we have time to...
by splendorinthesticks | Apr 6, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
It was bound to happen. Ever since the mysterious virus known as Covid-19 began to make news at the end of 2019, work/life balance – always a precarious knife edge on which to exist – has been reinvented and re-examined for so many of us. (Hopefully, the...
by splendorinthesticks | Mar 24, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
This week, I again missed my Monday target date for new weekly posts. It’s important for me to remember that posting on Mondays is a goal (and a good one; I like to be consistent) but that missing it doesn’t make me a Bad Person. And remembering that is an...
by splendorinthesticks | Mar 19, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
Whew – what a week! To twist the Bard into a pretzel, some weeks are born stressful, some have stress thrust upon them, and some achieve stressiness. (Apologies to Twelfth Night. I’ll go put on cross-gartered yellow stockings as penance.) The last week...
by splendorinthesticks | Mar 8, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
One of the things that brings me joy is using the creative part of my brain and psyche. In fact, I consider it to be an “Essential.” In my “day job,” I teach law – an occupation I quite enjoy and one that rewards logical, methodical...
by splendorinthesticks | Mar 2, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
Today is the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The day has become “Read Across America Day,” and the entire month of March is National Reading Month, so it’s a great time to discuss the joy of books. Books are something that’s always given me joy. My...
by splendorinthesticks | Feb 22, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
I’ve kept a journal for years. Sometimes, it’s more of a diary of what happened that day, sometimes it’s more of “hey, I noticed this and it was cool,” sometimes it’s a list of things that inspired feelings of gratitude in me....
by splendorinthesticks | Feb 16, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
Mid-to-late February is seldom my favorite time of the year. In North Carolina, it tends to be a dreary, wet, grey time, suitable for hunkering down and doing little, but it doesn’t really lend itself to that – we’re not in holiday time. Instead,...
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