 It’s 4:00 a.m. and I wake suddenly in the middle of one of those imaginary conversations. Those unsaid words keep me up at night. My bedtime rituals, PZIZZ and the occasional Advil PM allow me to fall asleep, but anytime between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m I often start wake, my head filling with words. In […]  In the past I have eschewed New Year’s resolutions in favor of a word for the year, but this year I’m making ten resolutions. Ten is a lot, but many are small, and require only a little discipline and a willingness to make changes. I hope that together they will increase my happiness which of […]  There is a voice you will always recognize, it is the voice of love. For me it is my mother’s voice. A year after she died I had a dream in which she appeared at the foot of my bed. She spoke to me, and I saw her there. Her presence was real; she wasn’t […]
 Today the Winter Solstice officially occurred (in my hemisphere) at 5:44 this morning. It is the official start of winter and in Philadelphia we will have nine hours and nineteen minutes of daylight; the shortest day of the year, hence the longest night. The days have been getting shorter since the summer Solstice, and at last […]  This weekend my house became cookie central. Although I keep saying ‘we made cookies’ the truth is I made them; 260 of them. I’m sorry I didn’t manage to take a picture of my six foot dining room table covered with all of them, and the various tins, containers and boxes we put them into […]
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Ellen - I, too, am brilliant in my imaginary conversations. I am also a brilliant writer in the shower yet my words somehow are washed down the drain as soon as I turn off the water.
I love how you work through the issue and by the end reframe and accept your imaginary conversations as a condition of a creative mind.