by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 22, 2015 | 1 true thing, my writing |
I don’t often reread my posts, but sometimes if nothing surfaces after I sit for a few minutes, I go back and read the post from the day before to see if anything flows from that. A phrase in yesterday’s post, which I just reread, stuck out to me. It...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 21, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Because of the dailiness of these posts, I can’t give them unlimited amounts of time, which is what some of them need. Yesterday’s post was a little scattered but this morning became more clear. In the interest of full disclosure, I just edited #39 (and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 20, 2015 | about the current writer |
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 | Feb 20, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Despite the number of years I’ve been a mother and a wife, I hardly ever think of myself that way. I am always those things after I am me. Even when I needed to stop practicing law in order to stay sane, I never thought of myself as a mother. I was always first...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 19, 2015 | 1 true thing |
In Falling Through Space, Ellen Gilchrist wrote, We should get up one morning and take all our books and put them in a pile in the middle of the floor and start playing with them. I love playing with books–sitting on the floor in a library, in a bookstore, or in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 18, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I have to think before I know which is my left or which is my right. There’s always a split second pause–where I connect the word right to my right arm–before I know which is which. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 17, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m not an emotional person, although I often get choked up watching commercials. Or movies. Or episodes of Parenthood. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 16, 2015 | 1 true thing, accumulation |
In direct contradiction with my tendency to save stuff, and/or because of it, I love getting rid of things and fantasize about a life with only the minimum. I imagine what the minimum would look like–seven of everything clothes-wise, ten books, one set of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 15, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Yesterday was a travel day, and today I’m back home. When I first sat down at my desk, my mind felt too cluttered to start writing this… Having been gone a week, I felt the need to attend to small details (mail, a list for tomorrow and another for the week...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 14, 2015 | 1 true thing |
My father always told me I could do anything I set my mind to. And I believed him. Small case in point. As a freshman in college I got a job as a waitress, something I’d never done before. That first day on the job, a Sunday, I was the only waitress at the...
