Ten Things that Inspire Me
1. Who you are is life’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to life. 2. To be more you, be less you. Do the opposite of what you're used to doing. 3. Your personal record is against yourself and nobody else. 4. Fear is Forgetting Everything’s All Right 5. Put gratitude in your attitude. 6. Live in day-tight compartments. 7. When agitated, pause and breathe deep. 8. Remember the problem in front of you is never as large as the power behind you. 9. Take care of your mind, heart, body and soul each day. 10. You only get to live once and if you do it right, that’s enough.-
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dianabletter
Diana Bletter is the author of several books, including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker), shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award. Her novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins) was published in 2015. She is the First Prize Winner of Moment Magazine's 2019 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review, Times of Israel, and is a reporter for Israel21C, and many other publications. She is author of Big Up Yourself: It's About Time You Like Being You and The Mom Who Took off On Her Motorcycle, a memoir of her 10,000-mile motorcycle trip to Alaska and back to New York. She lives in a small beach village in Western Galilee, Israel, with her husband and family. She is a member of the local hevra kadisha, the burial circle, and a Muslim-Jewish-Christian-Druze women's group in the nearby town of Akko. And, she likes snowboarding and climbing trees.
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Meditation Makes A Difference
True confession: I once had a cyst on my foot. My ex-husband said I could cure it with some herbal medicine he was using and gave me an assortment of pills. I was hopeful. Trusting and open. My heart was … Continue reading
Less Is More
One of the things I’ve learned lately is: less is more. The less wordy you are, the more impact you have. Like this. The less you tell, the more you reveal. In their classic book, The Elements of Style, William … Continue reading
A Writer’s Question: What Course Should I Take?
Media alert: I just got my award from Media Bistro for winning First Prize in Family Circle’s Fiction Contest! I get a one-year’s subscription to their how to video library – which includes 555 videos on so many subjects it’s … Continue reading
All We Can Do Is Go Around Telling The Truth
Literary biographer Virginia Spencer Carr died today. She’s author of one of my favorite biographies, The Lonely Hunter, about Carson McCullers, who was one of my favorite writers. Carr’s book about McCullers was so compassionate and empathetic that McCullers’ widowed … Continue reading
Tool For Tuesday: Make Sure Your Actions Match Your Words
Did you ever go out with someone who promised you roses every Friday, trips to Tahiti and you got bupkis instead? (Bupkis, FYI, is Yiddish for goat droppings and means nothing, zip, absolutely nada.) If we want people to take … Continue reading
Start From Somewhere. Somewhere is So Much Better Than Nowhere.
My husband, Jonny, and I were running this morning along the Mediterranean Sea. We passed a woman huffing along, waddling slowly up the road. She was overweight and struggling. “At least she’s trying,” Jonny said. “You have to start … Continue reading
Life is Not A Test: You will Not Be Graded. You Will Always Be Applauded. (If You At Least Try.)
“Good writing…explodes in the reader’s face,” Joy Williams said. “Whenever the writer writes, it’s always three or four or five o’clock in the morning in his head.” When we write, we have to stumble forward recklessly, passionately, and willy-nilly, using only … Continue reading
If It Feels Wrong, Then You’re Doing Right
Yesterday, my friend Joelle (apple wedges, not slices) called me. Distraught and depressed. She told me that her sister is up to her eyeballs in a lethal swirl of prescription drugs and alcohol and Joelle has been trying to get … Continue reading
Laura Vanderkam: Money is a Tool to Build the Lives We Want and a World We’d Like to Live In.
I’m thrilled to post my interview with sensible, smart, and super-savvy Laura Vanderkam about her newest book, All The Money In The World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending (Portfolio | Penguin; March 1, 2012). As she … Continue reading
Tool For Tuesday: Always Start Cleaning From The Exact Same Corner
In keeping with the relatively new tradition (begun five minutes ago) of providing you with a Tool for Tuesday, here’s a simple, effective tool to help you make this your best chapter. It’s a little thing that is really a … Continue reading
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