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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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, a novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins), a memoir, The Mom Who Took of on her Motorcycle, and The Loving Yourself Book for Women: A Practical Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Heal Your Inner Child, and Celebrate the Woman You Are, an Amazon top-seller in several categories, and The Loving Yourself Workbook for Girls. 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 and is currently a reporter for The Times of Israel. Diana and her husband have six children and an unofficially-adopted daughter from Ethiopia. They live in a small village on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel.
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The Best Way Not to Ruin Somebody Else’s Best Chapter
My younger son read a book — let’s just call it A Good Book for our purposes –and then encouraged my older son to read it. My older son began the book and was reading it at his own pace. This … Continue reading
Tool For Tuesday: Try Something Untested and Totally New
A devoted reader of this blog pointed out that yesterday’s interview with Liz Jansen and The Writer’s Almanac with snippets from May Swenson, Walker Percy and Maeve Binchy shared a theme. Transformation. Since I’m a firm believer in synchronicity (the … Continue reading
Bad Reality, Great Story
Sometimes when we’re going through something and it hurts, it feels like we’re never going to get out of it and it’s never going to not hurt. Clichéd expressions like “this too shall pass” don’t make us feel any better … Continue reading
Tool For Tuesday: Laugh At Yourself. But Really.
I often talk about how I’m learning to be more me by being less me. I’m trying to do things I wouldn’t normally do, stepping past the restricting idea I have of myself. See my post — I’m the kind of … Continue reading
Tool for Tuesday: As Carl Bass Says, Don’t Swerve the Bus
On Sunday a friend sent me this link to an article in The New York Times about one of our friends from Cornell . During college, Carl – that’s his name, Carl Bass – could be seen walking around snowy, … Continue reading
Tool For Tuesday: Say What You Mean. Mean What You Say. And Don’t Say It Meanly.
Last week’s Tool for Tuesday was making sure our actions match our words. That segues into today’s tool which can help us live our best chapter: Say what you mean. Mean what you say. And don’t say it meanly. I … Continue reading
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
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
New Season, New Chapter
When all six of our kids were living at home, I’d be so frazzled by the end of summer vacation that on the first day of school, I’d want to shout, “Get out your pompoms!” I don’t feel that … Continue reading
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