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The Joy of Rain

Dec 4, 2014 By elinwaldal 10 Comments

The Joy of Rain

It’s no secret that California has been suffering from drought. In case you aren’t sure what that looks like…here’s a visual from Central Valley.     Living further south than the image above, I have often felt starved for weather. Come fall, without fail, I threaten to move. Given we have lived in SoCal for 18 […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo Dec 14 Tagged With: Joy, Music, NaBloPoMo Dec 14

Music that Speaks a Truth

Nov 29, 2014 By elinwaldal 5 Comments

Music that Speaks a Truth

How often do you find you relate to the words of a song?  It seems to me that countless musicians have the uncanny ability of singing, what I think of as, some form of universal truth. Today I am really missing Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape Tuesdays. TMTT was a blog hop where bloggers from all over […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: Honesty, Music, NaBloPoMo14, Realtionships, Truth

My Happy Place, Wordless Wednesday

Oct 15, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

My Happy Place, Wordless Wednesday

Inspired by my friend Lois who wrote about her Happy Place a couple of days ago I decided to do the same, only not through words. In celebration of “wordless Wednesday” I offer up a series of photographs to show you My Happy Place.

Filed Under: Nature

Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you.

Sep 24, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you.

Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you. It’s over. Seriously. I’m done. Pack up your self-defeating attitude and go. Thanks, Elin For years too many to count I have been riding shotgun to this thing called FEAR. Don’t get me wrong I am not afraid to use my voice, that’s a fear I thankfully overcame years […]

Filed Under: Facing Fear Tagged With: Breaking up, Facing Fear, Fear

My Writing Life–A Blog Tour About Writing

May 2, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

My Writing Life–A Blog Tour About Writing

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 to their head, dashboard, bike–whatever–and it, the Go Pro, will then film what’s happening in the moment. But when my husband, Jimmy, mentioned to our […]

Filed Under: Facing Fear, Women, Writing Tagged With: Blog Hop, The Writing Process, Writers

There is nothing to writing…

Apr 16, 2014 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

There is nothing to writing…

“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

Twisted Mix Tape: Farewell

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 yet…if we listen…we hear about heartache, missed opportunities and loss in the music. Thankfully artists bite clear into the core of the apple of emotion, […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Twisted Mix Tape

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