by LJ Metz | Apr 7, 2011 | Searching For Meaning
When I turned 30-years-old, I surrendered to the fact that I was never going to have the body of a super model. No matter how much I exercised, or how little I ate, at my lowest possible weight, I would still have big hips. Ironically, that’s when I started to like...
by LJ Metz | Apr 5, 2011 | Searching For Meaning
Our most vivid memories seem to be about either the worst or best of times. But what about random, strange memories? Memories of moments that seem to have had little impact on our lives, yet like snapshots posted permanently on the bulletin board of our mind, are up...
by LJ Metz | Mar 24, 2011 | For Writers
The first time it hit me how much technologies like Skype (yes, I know, it’s gone, gone, gone now) were reshaping our world, was when my cousin moved to Australia to marry the man of her dreams. I can only image how difficult her decision was, and yet, so much...
by LJ Metz | Mar 15, 2011 | Searching For Meaning
“If You Could Bring Back One Famous Person, Who Would It Be?” is actually a blog prompt I recently received and immediately rejected because, well, it seemed rather pointless. It felt like one of those writing prompts they hand out in high school creative...
by LJ Metz | Mar 10, 2011 | For Writers
Inspiration comes from the strangest of places. Sometimes, however, no matter how inspired the initial idea, the creative juices don’t flow. Yesterday, I was working on a scene from my novel, and suddenly the scene began to feel forced and, before I knew it, I’d...
