Comments on: Weekly Wrap: How We Balance Our Time. http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/ where writers come to play Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: n.l. belardes http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2061 n.l. belardes Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:55:31 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2061 Stay tuned, there's going to be a controversial image sometime this week on Paperback Writer inspired by and just for Lauren Baratz-Logsted, whose Victorianesque book "Vertigo" I started a few days ago... -n.l. Stay tuned, there’s going to be a controversial image sometime this week on Paperback Writer inspired by and just for Lauren Baratz-Logsted, whose Victorianesque book “Vertigo” I started a few days ago… -n.l.

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2048 Susan Henderson Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:11:33 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2048 vg - CMU? vg - CMU?

]]> By: vg http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2038 vg Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:39:24 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2038 hey , your thoughts are interesting . I blog about worklife balanace , mumbai marathon & finding great place to work at ; http://www.vgoel.blogspot.com/ & http://www.justforchange.blogspot.com/ hey , your thoughts are interesting .
I blog about worklife balanace , mumbai marathon & finding great place to work at ; http://www.vgoel.blogspot.com/ & http://www.justforchange.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2035 Susan Henderson Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:47:19 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-2035 Myf, Lance, Julie, Robin, Terry, Lauren, Carolyn, Anneliese - Thanks so much for the sweet notes. I've been working like a maniac on my novel, and I think it's about two weeks from being done. It feels good to see the light at the end of a long long long long tunnel. Myf, Lance, Julie, Robin, Terry, Lauren, Carolyn, Anneliese - Thanks so much for the sweet notes. I’ve been working like a maniac on my novel, and I think it’s about two weeks from being done. It feels good to see the light at the end of a long long long long tunnel.

]]> By: Anneliese http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1991 Anneliese Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:04:51 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1991 Susan: How fun was this!? I had a great time reading everyone's responses this week. You have really created a wonderful sense of community for writers here and I thank you for that. I also thank you for my handle: "Writer, photographer, and California coast lover." :) I've been filling out the book proposal requirements of a university press and am at a loss as to what to write for About The Author. I'm copying/pasting in your description and will build on that. :) Thanks for the help! Susan:
How fun was this!? I had a great time reading everyone’s responses this week. You have really created a wonderful sense of community for writers here and I thank you for that.

I also thank you for my handle: “Writer, photographer, and California coast lover.” :) I’ve been filling out the book proposal requirements of a university press and am at a loss as to what to write for About The Author. I’m copying/pasting in your description and will build on that. :) Thanks for the help!

]]> By: Carolyn Burns Bass http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1989 Carolyn Burns Bass Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:21:02 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1989 For the last couple of weeks I've felt very stretched between writing and my personal business where I've been planning a two-day holiday event for a group of colleagues in the travel industry. The event had $260,000 worth of travel packages for auction and raffle, all of the proceeds tagged for three SoCal children's charities. This year one of the directors of the charities won an amazing trip to Hawaii with his raffle ticket. I spoke with him afterward and he told me he and his wife had not taken a vacation for 14 years. This, and that we raised $150,000 for these grass-roots charities, recalibrated my humanity meter. Once again, I must ditto Robin in applause for Susan. I haven't touched my book for a couple of weeks, but I always make time to stop by LitPark. For the last couple of weeks I’ve felt very stretched between writing and my personal business where I’ve been planning a two-day holiday event for a group of colleagues in the travel industry. The event had $260,000 worth of travel packages for auction and raffle, all of the proceeds tagged for three SoCal children’s charities. This year one of the directors of the charities won an amazing trip to Hawaii with his raffle ticket. I spoke with him afterward and he told me he and his wife had not taken a vacation for 14 years. This, and that we raised $150,000 for these grass-roots charities, recalibrated my humanity meter.

Once again, I must ditto Robin in applause for Susan. I haven’t touched my book for a couple of weeks, but I always make time to stop by LitPark.

]]> By: LaurenBaratz-Logsted http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1987 LaurenBaratz-Logsted Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:41:24 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1987 Sue, in an industry that sometimes can make a person - OK, me - feel no bigger than a bug, you make us all feel like Kings and Queens, and yet you never lose the common touch. Sue, in an industry that sometimes can make a person - OK, me - feel no bigger than a bug, you make us all feel like Kings and Queens, and yet you never lose the common touch.

]]> By: Terry http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1986 Terry Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:24:02 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1986 Nicely wrapped. I feel the least 'balanced,' by the way, the closer we come to December 25. Odd. Because it feels like the time I should be most at peace. And it takes a lot of work just to <i>focus</i> on not <i>flying off the freaking nut</i>. Peace will come. Come, peace, come. Nicely wrapped.

I feel the least ‘balanced,’ by the way, the closer we come to December 25. Odd. Because it feels like the time I should be most at peace. And it takes a lot of work just to focus on not flying off the freaking nut. Peace will come. Come, peace, come.

]]> By: Julie Ann Shapiro http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1984 Julie Ann Shapiro Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:15:08 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1984 Robin, You just reminded me to look around me and not appear like I'm so narcistic. I didn't take offense. Holy shit - 400 handgun deaths in one city. That sounds like a war zone. There are a lot of homeless people in San Diego. Yesterday, I was running erands and they were out in droves in the parking lot and street corners with their signs. Sometimes if I have food in the car I'll unroll the window and give it to them. But not yesterday, I felt so selfish and like crying every time I saw them. I mean my life isn't perfect, funds go up and down with clients and things, but I have a roof over my head and hope and happiness. These homeless people just made me want to cry. I feel their pain and hopelessness so much on their sleaves. Not that we writers don't hurt, it's just so much in your face with the homeless. How can it not be when their life is in the street? Julie Robin,
You just reminded me to look around me and not appear like I’m so narcistic. I didn’t take offense.

Holy shit - 400 handgun deaths in one city. That sounds like a war zone.

There are a lot of homeless people in San Diego. Yesterday, I was running erands and they were out in droves in the parking lot and street corners with their signs. Sometimes if I have food in the car I’ll unroll the window and give it to them. But not yesterday, I felt so selfish and like crying every time I saw them. I mean my life isn’t perfect, funds go up and down with clients and things, but I have a roof over my head and hope and happiness. These homeless people just made me want to cry. I feel their pain and hopelessness so much on their sleaves. Not that we writers don’t hurt, it’s just so much in your face with the homeless. How can it not be when their life is in the street?

Julie

]]> By: Julie Ann Shapiro http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1985 Julie Ann Shapiro Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:15:08 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/12/15/weekly-wrap-how-we-divide-our-time/#comment-1985 Robin, You just reminded me to look around me and not appear like I'm so narcistic. I didn't take offense. Holy shit - 400 handgun deaths in one city. That sounds like a war zone. There are a lot of homeless people in San Diego. Yesterday, I was running erands and they were out in droves in the parking lot and street corners with their signs. Sometimes if I have food in the car I'll unroll the window and give it to them. But not yesterday, I felt so selfish and like crying every time I saw them. I mean my life isn't perfect, funds go up and down with clients and things, but I have a roof over my head and hope and happiness. These homeless people just made me want to cry. I feel their pain and hopelessness so much on their sleaves. Not that we writers don't hurt, it's just so much in your face with the homeless. How can it not be when their life is in the street? Julie Robin,
You just reminded me to look around me and not appear like I’m so narcistic. I didn’t take offense.

Holy shit - 400 handgun deaths in one city. That sounds like a war zone.

There are a lot of homeless people in San Diego. Yesterday, I was running erands and they were out in droves in the parking lot and street corners with their signs. Sometimes if I have food in the car I’ll unroll the window and give it to them. But not yesterday, I felt so selfish and like crying every time I saw them. I mean my life isn’t perfect, funds go up and down with clients and things, but I have a roof over my head and hope and happiness. These homeless people just made me want to cry. I feel their pain and hopelessness so much on their sleaves. Not that we writers don’t hurt, it’s just so much in your face with the homeless. How can it not be when their life is in the street?

Julie

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