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My Writing Life–A Blog Tour About Writing

May 2, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

We gave our son, who is a rock climber, a Go Pro for his 27th birthday. If you are not familiar…it is a small movie camera that one can strap […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons Tagged With: Blog Hop, The Writing Process, Writers

Write What Haunts You

Apr 27, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

“Write what haunts you, lest you spend your life amidst drivel. Write what you care most about, the beauty, the absurdity, and the sorrow of the world.”–Jane Resh Thomas In […]

Filed Under: Grief, Just Write Tagged With: Death of Mother, Grief, Loss of Mother, Writing

Twisted Mix Tape: Farewell

Apr 15, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

Endings are tough. Culturally I feel it’s fair to say we don’t do them justice. Things end and we are taught to bury our emotion, move on, get over it. And […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Twisted Mix Tape

What a week can do: Perspective Day 20

Feb 20, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal Leave a Comment

Although my commitment to daily blogging hasn’t exactly been perfect this month, I am happy to say when it comes to my announcement on Day 11 to reclaim my health […]

Filed Under: Exercise Tagged With: exercise, fitbit, hiking, Motivation, NaBlogPoMo

Five Favorites: Twisted Mix Tape

Feb 18, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

It’s been way to long since I managed to put together a Twisted Mix-Tape for Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix-Tape Tuesday. Today I promised myself I would get it done before […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: NaBlogPoMo, Perspective, twisted mix-tape Tuesday

Attitude: Perspective Day 16

Feb 16, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 8 Comments

Noelle Pikus-Pace. Wow. Just wow. In the note she wrote to herself that read: “This is it. Don’t get scared now.” followed by a smiley face, Noelle Pikus-Pace set the […]

Filed Under: Healing from Trauma, Marriage, Memories Tagged With: Grief, Healing, Love, Noelle Pikus-Place, Olympics

The Blog: Perspective Day 12

Feb 12, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal Leave a Comment

As if it were yesterday, I remember launching my first website. It went “live” and then everything that was wrong with the copy became obvious. Glaring typos. Run-on sentences. Tense […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons Tagged With: blogging lessons, Women, Writing

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