by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 29, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’ve now been married to Cal more years than I had been alive at the time I married him. Late last night he decorated the side table here with four anniversary cards. I never even thought about cards. A couple of days ago, I asked him if the thirty years was...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 28, 2015 | 1 true thing |
The sun comes up around 5:30. Cal gets up around 6:00 for reading and coffee. I get out of bed around 7:15. After a cup of tea we walk down our steps to go for a swim. At 8:15 breakfast is delivered (I told you it was paradise), and we eat inside in a room where the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 27, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Each evening I walk to dinner ahead of Cal to connect to the wifi in the office and write this post. Other than these few minutes of reality, we’re in paradise. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 26, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I generally go north. I’ve never been to the Bahamas or to Jamaica. Only three times have I been south of Florida–in 2005 to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in 2007 to Belize, and now to Petit St. Vincent. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 25, 2015 | 1 true thing |
For the next 7 days–for the first time that I can remember–I’ll have only once-a-day internet access and no phone service. I have no idea what this will feel like. Visualize me and my sweetie, tropical drinks, palm trees, clear blue water, and a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 24, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m aware, as I write these posts, not only of who I am but also of who I’d like to be. In years past, I have actually squished who I am into the bottle labeled who I’d like to be, or who I thought I should be–with parts of me poking out...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 23, 2015 | 1 true thing |
The more this practice goes on, the more I understand that being myself means being in the moment. It means more saying what I think and less deferring until I have time to evaluate. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 22, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Some days all sorts of things pop up that I could write as the truth for the day. When I was earlier in, I would try to jot down a word or two to remind me of whatever it was. That didn’t last long. Now I let the truths flit by, circle round, and float just out...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 22, 2015 | about the current writer, How We Spend Our Days, memoir, novels, stories, truth |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 21, 2015 | 1 true thing |
On Sunday afternoons when I was in high school, I used to go down to our basement to watch golf while I did my homework. I still enjoy watching golf on Sunday afternoons ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
