by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 28, 2015 | 1 true thing |
In the fall of 1967, I was riding bikes with my best friend, and I stopped beside a mailbox that had its red flag up. For some reason, I opened the mailbox. Nothing. I raced home, my friend right behind me, and we sat together at a picnic table on the deck outside...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 27, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I hope I don’t lose some of you with this post. But I’m not a dog person. I know. But I did children, not pets. I just couldn’t take care of anything else. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 26, 2015 | 1 true thing |
So I sit at my desk in the morning and make the day’s list, then I get going, one thing after another, a train on its tracks. Like the little fox who used to play in the backyard right in front of my window, the interruptions are life too. ~ 365 true things...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 25, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I have whatever the opposite of ADD is. In fact, I often have to remind myself to look up. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily practice
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 24, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
Windows fascinate me. Where they are, what they frame. Panes or no panes. I prefer panes, not surprising since I like to break things into smaller pieces. Some writers prefer a wall when they’re working, but not me. Windows open my brain to other worlds....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 23, 2015 | 1 true thing |
It’s the way I get things done. If something is huge, then I turn it into a project and break off a little piece every day or every week or every month. Right now, I have this project. I’m also going through all our photos, selecting some to have...
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...
