by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 13, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
It’s seven on a Friday night, possibly the latest I’ve ever waited to come here. The reason: I’m sick. Just a cold with a bad cough, chills, body aches. But it’s the third time in nine weeks and this is the worst. I spent two hours at the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 12, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When I was young–elementary school–my parents started making me say yes ma’am and yes sir. I didn’t want to, but I got so tired of them correcting me that I decided I would choose to say it. As I have mentioned before, I like being in charge of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 11, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
I woke up to a frozen sea–outside–so I’m thinking no longer inside. I’m going to take it as a sign that the universe is with me. I’m in Provincetown where the temperatures for the last couple of days have been in the forties. Before I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 10, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Here’s the kind of toddler I was: I climbed over the side of my crib in the dark and let go. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 9, 2015 | 1 true thing |
In recent weeks I’ve felt more comfortable with my life than I have in years. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily practice
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 8, 2015 | 1 true thing |
As the ball began to drop this past New Year’s Eve, for the first time, I thought, no, no, I’m not ready yet. It was a strange and uncomfortable feeling. And I think it was because I knew I needed to do something; I just wasn’t sure what. ~ 365 true...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 7, 2015 | 1 true thing |
History of the Rain by Niall Williams is a wonderful book I recently finished. It’s narrated by plain Ruth Swain, a bedridden nineteen-year-old who reads nineteenth-century novels and uses capitalization as one of her tools, overdoing it according to her...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 6, 2015 | 1 true thing, craft of writing, journeys, my writing |
When I sat down at my desk this morning, I realized I had forgotten to add a link to yesterday’s post on the 365-days page, and when I went to do that, it took me a minute to come up with the one true thing about that post. That’s how I knew I had not...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 5, 2015 | 1 true thing |
This morning I did something I don’t believe I would have done pre-365-days project. Last night I received a request for a remembrance of a particular person, which needed to be emailed by the end of the day today. I didn’t give it much thought. It was...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 4, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Just a few minutes ago, one of the regular cashiers at the grocery store asked me, “Are you always in a rush?” Today was, unusually, a day spent mostly out, rather than in–a walk and lunch with a friend, a haircut. But yes, two speeds: in a rush or...
