For a long time now, I’ve been employing the philosophy that was my mother-in-law’s favorite; make the best of what you have. I’ve been amazed at the power of using this in my personal life. [bctt tweet=”When you make the best of what you have, something even better comes. It’s like magic!” username=”@maggieshayne”] I was planning the Wednesday post for my CoffeeHouse Blog about how to apply this to everyday life, and it occurred to me that the same powerful, transformative m

For a long time now, I’ve been employing the philosophy that was my mother-in-law’s favorite; make the best of what you have. I’ve been amazed at the power of using this in my personal life. [bctt tweet=”When you make the best of what you have, something even better comes. It’s like magic!” username=”@maggieshayne”] I was planning the Wednesday post for my CoffeeHouse Blog about how to apply this to everyday life, and it occurred to me that the same powerful, transformative m

For a long time now, I’ve been employing the philosophy that was my mother-in-law’s favorite; make the best of what you have. I’ve been amazed at the power of using this in my personal life. [bctt tweet=”When you make the best of what you have, something even better comes. It’s like magic!” username=”@maggieshayne”] I was planning the Wednesday post for my CoffeeHouse Blog about how to apply this to everyday life, and it occurred to me that the same powerful, transformative m

All Creators are First Observers We don’t get the urge to tell stories until we’ve first been told stories. Whether it was our mother or grandmother, teacher or sibling, babysitter or friend, weaving a tale of her own, or reading to us from a fabulous book. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, or Hop on Pop or the television set, we saw or heard or read stories. We loved stories. And so we gave birth to the desire to tell stories ourselves. From the very first urge, art begin

All Creators are First Observers We don’t get the urge to tell stories until we’ve first been told stories. Whether it was our mother or grandmother, teacher or sibling, babysitter or friend, weaving a tale of her own, or reading to us from a fabulous book. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, or Hop on Pop or the television set, we saw or heard or read stories. We loved stories. And so we gave birth to the desire to tell stories ourselves. From the very first urge, art begin

All Creators are First Observers We don’t get the urge to tell stories until we’ve first been told stories. Whether it was our mother or grandmother, teacher or sibling, babysitter or friend, weaving a tale of her own, or reading to us from a fabulous book. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, or Hop on Pop or the television set, we saw or heard or read stories. We loved stories. And so we gave birth to the desire to tell stories ourselves. From the very first urge, art begin

The energy of this day is powerful, and it’s the energy of rebirth. The time between now and mid-summer is a time of rapid growth and expansion. That’s certainly the feel of things in my neck of the woods. This blog has been reborn. We are now BlissBlog.org, and that’s just the beginning of our growth and expansion this season. We have a lot in store for you, and I hope you’ll stay for the ride. I have a newsletter just for BlissBlog folks, and while I haven’t sent out a sing

The energy of this day is powerful, and it’s the energy of rebirth. The time between now and mid-summer is a time of rapid growth and expansion. That’s certainly the feel of things in my neck of the woods. This blog has been reborn. We are now BlissBlog.org, and that’s just the beginning of our growth and expansion this season. We have a lot in store for you, and I hope you’ll stay for the ride. I have a newsletter just for BlissBlog folks, and while I haven’t sent out a sing

The energy of this day is powerful, and it’s the energy of rebirth. The time between now and mid-summer is a time of rapid growth and expansion. That’s certainly the feel of things in my neck of the woods. This blog has been reborn. We are now BlissBlog.org, and that’s just the beginning of our growth and expansion this season. We have a lot in store for you, and I hope you’ll stay for the ride. I have a newsletter just for BlissBlog folks, and while I haven’t sent out a sing

I’m having the rare, delicious experience every writer dreams about; the book that is writing itself. It’s like magic. And as I’m blissfully relishing it, I’m also trying to figure out what might have instigated it. Because it seems to me that all my books used to come this easily, and now, or lately at least, it almost never happens. I hadn’t realized it until it started happening again. The last book I wrote seemed to be the turning point. I was in the middle of a trilog

I’m having the rare, delicious experience every writer dreams about; the book that is writing itself. It’s like magic. And as I’m blissfully relishing it, I’m also trying to figure out what might have instigated it. Because it seems to me that all my books used to come this easily, and now, or lately at least, it almost never happens. I hadn’t realized it until it started happening again. The last book I wrote seemed to be the turning point. I was in the middle of a trilog

I’m having the rare, delicious experience every writer dreams about; the book that is writing itself. It’s like magic. And as I’m blissfully relishing it, I’m also trying to figure out what might have instigated it. Because it seems to me that all my books used to come this easily, and now, or lately at least, it almost never happens. I hadn’t realized it until it started happening again. The last book I wrote seemed to be the turning point. I was in the middle of a trilog