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.

And I’m off!

It feels a bit weird to be heading off to a conference when I am still coming to terms with my Dad’s passing but what can you do?

I put lots of things on pause over the last month but there are still things that must go on and stuff that must be done and heading off to a professional conference is one of them.

I’m looking forward to seeing my friends and colleagues and taking the sessions I registered for.

But I still kind of wish I didn’t have to be away from home quite yet.

A photo of the wing of an airplane and a cloudy sky as seen out through a passenger window.?
A photo of the wing of an airplane and a cloudy sky as seen out through a passenger window.

And I’m off!

It feels a bit weird to be heading off to a conference when I am still coming to terms with my Dad’s passing but what can you do?

I put lots of things on pause over the last month but there are still things that must go on and stuff that must be done and heading off to a professional conference is one of them.

I’m looking forward to seeing my friends and colleagues and taking the sessions I registered for.

But I still kind of wish I didn’t have to be away from home quite yet.

A photo of the wing of an airplane and a cloudy sky as seen out through a passenger window.?
A photo of the wing of an airplane and a cloudy sky as seen out through a passenger window.

I like this tree

On my walk yesterday, this tree was blooming? budding? growing?

And it just looked so cheerful and hopeful that I had to take a photo.

I know that this is a completely ordinary tree doing it’s completely ordinary thing but I was grateful for it yesterday and that’s worth celebrating.

A close-up photo of a branch of a tree with a bud that looks kind of like a raspberry and a bunch of green tufts where the needles or leaves will be. ?
A close-up photo of a branch of a tree with a bud that looks kind of like a raspberry and a bunch of green tufts where the needles or leaves will be.

Planning for June

I had some fun plans in place for May but obviously my focus was elsewhere this month.

Now, as I try to work out what I want to do in June I am feeling rusty and kind of weird.

I know that I shouldn’t take on ‘too much’ but what’s too much?

And I definitely shouldn’t leave myself without enough to do because that leads to melancholy in the best of times. Also, what’s enough to do?

I have no idea what my capacity is now and I definitely can’t guess what it will be in a month.

I often struggle with this kind of planning anyway, my present circumstances aren’t making it any easier.

Glerg.