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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

There is nothing to writing…

Apr 16, 2014 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway

Filed Under: Inspiration

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

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