An Ordinary Disaster

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Say everything
Speaking freely, self expression—and saying it with love
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Staying sane with research notes, citations, end notes, and a real bibliography
Using Scrivener, a good pencil, Zotero, and Obsidian together as a system
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How Well Is Your Wheel Rolling?
Using the Wheel of Life to identify the areas that need the most attention
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What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do
Prepare yourself, create options—or just walk.
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Tools for Writers: Moving from Logseq to Obsidian
Choose the tool that gets used the most
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How to eat the question when someone asks "What's next?"—or anything else, for that matter.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 21 — Eat the Question
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Sex is Better Sober ...and 23 other reasons why Alcohol is Obsolete
From depression and alcohol to spontaneous sobriety
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Let Monday Be Truth Day
Keeping relationships 'horizontal' is a great way to be more yourself
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Guided Meditation: Breathing Colorful Attention
A 13-minute guided meditation based on breathing colorful attention
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A rundown on my writing tools
Scrivener, Zotero, Substack, Zencastr, Descript, Day One, Overcast, Listen Notes, Temi, Goodreads, Open Library, the OED, Quote…
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What is Intuition? A Whole and Open Mind
An inner voice, guardian within, embodied cognition, pattern recognition, knowing without knowing how, understanding through the senses, bone knowledge…
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Guided meditation: The River
A ten minute guided meditation on the rivers of self and in the world
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