I've been having quite a difficult time with this blog over the last few weeks. I've been in the process of switching to a self-hosted blog, and I did everything wrong on my first go round. That meant that I had to re-do everything and I still don't think it's quite right. And on top... Continue Reading →
“Blackberries need the rain AND sun” — on writing and its fuel
When we moved into our house, we started planting berry bushes almost right away. Our blueberry bushes have exploded in the last few weeks, and we've already picked all of our raspberries and strawberries. We were lucky to find some wild blackberry bushes all over the bluff down to the river behind our house. My... Continue Reading →
This is my 100th Post!
Friends, today I am posting my 100th post! WHAT?! Thank you all for being so kind and generous with your time. I've truly enjoyed finding my tribe and sharing my interests with all of you. The best part about bookish communities is how no one really judges - people who read have such deep empathy... Continue Reading →
Journal Prompts – July 2017
I've been writing and posting on Instagram about how much I love morning pages for a while now. I've gotten several message from people saying that they'd love to journal or do morning pages, but can never think of anything to say! And believe me, I've been there. While I've been preaching that it's important... Continue Reading →
Morning Pages are a Morning Miracle
Tomorrow will be the three month mark for my morning pages. On December 21 I started a morning routine of writing in my journal every single day. Much to my surprise, I've only missed a handful of days which makes this my longest stretch of journaling ever! I've always wanted to be the person who had... Continue Reading →
Happy Birthday to Never Listless!
I am so excited that my little blog turns one year old today! I remember when the idea to start a book blog came to me and I thought that it was just another flight of fancy (that happens to INFPs), but I'm still here! I've started several blogs over the years in different niches,... Continue Reading →
Motivation begets Amotivation – how to find the time
Did you notice that I posted five times last week? I was playing catch up on some books that I'd finished over the last couple of weeks and stayed motivated to write all week. I had this really intense manic phase where I, for a brief period of time, lived the life I wanted: I... Continue Reading →
A Friday with Susan
After learning about Brain Pickings a few months ago, I went in search of as many interviews with Maria Popova that I could find. One of the names she kept mentioning as inspiration was Susan Sontag. She described Sontag as a prolific reader - one who read 8-9 hours each day - which caught my... Continue Reading →
Picking Up Where You Left Off.
Late last year I wrote about participating in National Novel Writing Month. So that means I’ve had a 50,000+ word document sitting in my Dropbox that hasn’t been touched since the end of November. The reasons for this are innumerable: it’s been hard to regain the momentum that I had during NaNoWriMo; it’s been tricky... Continue Reading →
January Intentions
I realize that we are nearly two weeks into January so it's a little late for me to be sharing these, but something that I'm hoping to set each month is a new set of intentions and mantras. There's a lot out there about the Law of Attraction - basically, what you put out into... Continue Reading →
The Cozy Burrow 