by splendorinthesticks | Jun 7, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
Tired? Sounds like a crazy thing to have as the subject of a “joy” post, doesn’t it? Bear with me. I don’t mean “wow, isn’t it great to be exhausted?” which would, in fact, be sort of the complete opposite of what I mean. (By...
by splendorinthesticks | May 31, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
I recently completed the 100 Day Project and discovered a few things along the way. Yes, my proficiency improved through sheer repetition and that gave me the courage to try subjects and techniques that were increasingly more difficult but, just as important as...
by splendorinthesticks | May 24, 2021 | Diva Dispatch
I have just returned from a long weekend away from the cares of work, home, and family. To be truly successful, I have found that trips like these (which I also consider an Essential on the Diva Path; you can find other Essentials by searching for that term in the...
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...
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