Finding Beauty in the Breakdown

It's Blogapalooza tonight at ChicagoNow! Bloggers are given the challenge to write a blog post in one hour. The topic given to us tonight is "Write about something you find beautiful that you feel others may not understand." Hmm. Here is my take.... Since I've heard the phrase "There's beauty in the breakdown," I've loved it. … Continue reading Finding Beauty in the Breakdown

The choice to write

It's Blogazpalooza hour at ChicagoNow. All bloggers are given a challenge: publish a post in one hour! The challenge to write about tonight is: “You made a million choices in 2015. Write about one of them.” My father's favorite mantra was "Choices, Nina. Life is all about choices." We make hundreds of choices every day: oatmeal … Continue reading The choice to write

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

It's Blogapalooza here at ChicagoNow. It falls during my #30daysofgratitude series. Guess what? I'm grateful for Blogapalooza and the fabulous support of the ChicagoNow community. Blogapalooza is a monthly writing challenge - we are given a topic and have one hour to write and publish a post. Here's the challenge tonight: "Share your favorite quote (or quotes) … Continue reading When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change