If you ever wanted to know what my life is like

I reflect on the past two years of working full-time, from home, as a writer and artist.

What does it take to make me work?

I resort to a coloring book to motivate myself. I think it’s working.

I compare my 2007 and 2011 responses to the “creative autobiography” questionnaire in Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit.

I modify some of the goals I set at the beginning of this year.

I continue my January blues by thinking about goals, and how hard it is for me to set good ones.

I begin a series of small watercolor paintings for practice and experimentation. I’m so happy with the medium!

Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones dovetails with my mindfulness meditation class, and prompts me to recommit to my writing practice.