Author: Christine

Christine http://www.mombie.com I'm a writer/storyteller/director/creativity & lifestory coach with a black belt in ITF Taekwon-do. I read voraciously and I write like my fingers are on fire. I'm the founder and Co-Chair of the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl and I'm the current president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

Daisies!

Daisies make me happy every time I see them.

A photo of daisies on some grass, one is up close, the rest are in the background.

An overly long to do list

I am spending entirely too much time checking things off my to do list and not nearly enough time doing the fun things I want to be doing.

This is partially an issue of being in an especially busy time for my various volunteer commitments but it is also a problem of tasks creeping out from the mental containers I have put them in.

I am going to have to experiment with how to keep tasks where they belong and how to make sure that I just say no to extra volunteer tasks. Even if they need to be done, they don’t need to be done by me.

A collage from last year

I was filling out an application earlier and decided to include a photo of this collage I made last year.

I know I had something to say with this last year but now it means something entirely different to me.

Fun, hey?

A collage with text reading ‘Extraordinary Gentle Sense’ and a variety of images including an image of soap and lotion bottles, a rhino, a cloud on a string, a woman in a 1940s style coat and hat, two flamingos and a pocket watch.

Snail!

It was a glum, rainy day here today but something about this little snail gliding along made me really happy.

A close-up photo of a snail with a brown shell gliding along the asphalt in my driveway on a grey day.

July, hmm?

My brain is full today but, for a change, not in a bad way.

But it is so full that all of my ideas are jammed together and none of them will emerge on their own.

Some days I just have to say ‘Ok, busy brain, you can have this one.’