What keeps you up at night?
I need rest. Sleep restores and prepare my mind, body, and spirit so I can be the active, creative, positive mom-wife-friend-writer-consultant I want to be. This means making the most of […]
Tag Archives: anxiety
Make Something: Half & Half
Traveling homebody. For the next few days, that’s what I will be. A trip—part business, part relaxation—will take me far from home. And that makes me anxious. I love adventure, experiencing new places, […]
Make Something: Sandy
“Use sand as your medium or inspiration today.” What a great excuse for haiku … about playing a board game with one of those anxiety-producing timers. fast and narrow sand rains […]
Make Something: Letter to Me
Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life. This prompt makes me think of the Brad Paisley song, “Letter to Me.” I may not be as articulate in […]
From Nerves to Curves
when I was anxious my belly was flat my chins were fewer my thighs weren’t fat now that I’m happy I’ve put on some weight my clothes may be tighter […]
Exterior Decorating
Day 358 prompt: Interior calm laid back and unruffled a sure presence even under force of stress outside but inside edgy fretful squirming as the perpetual hiss of anxiety threatens to […]
Not-So-Straight A’s
Day 262 prompt: The Letter A The quest for A’s to elicit praise is a twisting maze that’s sure to craze.
Beneath it All
Day 23 prompt: beneath beneath the chestnut brown of her blunt, swingy bob dishwater blonde that’s mostly gone gray beneath the head-turning curves of her cashmere sweater engineered cups that stand […]
Anxiety to Calm (a diamante poem)
Day 6 prompt: calm anxiety tight . breathless clenching . pressing . stewing clutter . victim … mercy . clarity releasing . breathing . trusting open . light calm
Beth Nyland 