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Creativity & Writing Tips

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5 Steps To Help Your 5 Year Old Write Their Story

In my daughter’s Kindergarten class last year and her Grade One class this year, there is a fabulous program called…

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What To Do When Inspiration Seems Faaaarrrr Away? Go Fly A Kite!

How many times have you fallen asleep staring at a blank page or been hypnotized by a flashing cursor on…

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Grab Their Attention By Creating A Scene (In Your Writing!) And Two Exercises To Try

How many times have you picked up a book that just seemed to drag?  And how quickly did you end…

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“Before I Die I Want To…”

“Before I Die, I Want To…” is the title of a beautiful TED Talk by Candy Chang from New Orleans. …

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It Was A Summer Of Dreams

There were some dreams planted, some dreams realized…and some dreams vaporised.  In fact, I feel as though I am still…

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Try-This Tuesday: Listen ‘Exquisitely’

This task is inspired by a most wonderful public speaking coaching session my co-authors of Heartmind Wisdom and I had…

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Try-This Tuesday: Find That Pause

How’s your day?  Busy?  Crazy?  (Those are usually the two answers I get from my husband…sometimes, it’s just one answer…

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Try-This Tuesday: What If The What If Game Wasn’t So Bad?

You’ve heard it before:  “Don’t play the ‘What If’ game because there’s no point/it’s dangerous/it’s scary/etc.” But what if the…

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Try-This Tuesday: Back To The Drawing Board

Does this ever happen to you?  You’re excited about an idea you have and then you decide to do a…

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Re-Run! Try-This Tuesday: What Do You Need?

Good morning, everyone, and happy Tuesday!  Here’s a re-run from not too long ago – if you missed it the…

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Try-This Tuesday: Cease Fire!

I heard a term on the radio last week: the silent war.  It refers to the phenomenon that many mothers…

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Try-This Tuesday: How Do I Love ME?? Let Me Count The Ways…

Ahhh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, you sure could rock a poem.  (I hope you don’t mind how I made that slight…

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Try-This Tuesday: Do It For The First Time

Happy Tuesday, dear Readers!  We have a lot of new readers stopping by lately and I want to give you…

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Try-This Tuesday: Realize The Power Of A Single Thought

Do you ever get in a bad mood?  Ever feel low?  Down?  Frustrated?  Annoyed?  Upset?  Angry?  Yeah, me too, sometimes. …

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Try-This Tuesday: Work Out Your Vocab Muscles

To get in to graduate school for speech-language pathology, I had to take the Graduate Record Examination.  As soon as…

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Try-This Tuesday: Write By Erasing

Last week, we created a haiku with a blank page and the nudge to write about a season.  This week,…

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Try-This Tuesday: Paint With Words In Haiku

Do you remember writing haiku in elementary school?  I’ve always been drawn to haiku.  I love the shortness and the…

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Try-This Tuesday: What Do You Need?

All my life I kept shut about a million things that were important to me.  I hid behind fear, anxiety,…

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Try-This Tuesday: What’s The Point??

In today’s task, I ask you to look at what you have learned about yourself in the past 12 months. …

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Try-This Tuesday: Flex That Right Brain And Channel Some Wisdom

I love coaching.  I coach via telephone and sometimes I think I should videotape myself on a call just for…

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Hi, I'm Taslim! Freelance writer, writing instructor and mom of 3. Also: Taurus, INFJ, bookworm, and chronic nostalgic. Give me slow Sundays, deep conversations, Spanish music and time to daydream. I'm a Pacific Northwest girl with the itch to explore my backyard and beyond.

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  • So long, San Diego - hello, Vancouver! (Swipe for the sun to snow contrast outside my airplane window!)
  • Looks like a great day for a walking food tour of Carlsbad; one of my favourite ways to get my bearings in a new city is to take a guided tour on foot. This one happens to include samples of local cuisine as well as the company of my friend @sleepless.in.sandiego ❤️
Have you done a walking tour of a city? I’d love to hear! 
#carlsbad #foodie #travel
  • Our visit to Carlsbad has coincided with an unprecedented amount of rain and wind! Travel isn’t always about sitting poolside and soaking in the sun! 
Travel is about being in the moment and accepting what is. It’s about standing at the door with a stranger, watching the downpour and sharing unsettling stories about climate change. Travel is faith in action. It can be romantic and flashy - and one IG photo after another. But it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes it’s messy or quiet and deliciously offline. Whatever it ends up being, it is a part of who you are going forward. A stamp on your soul that says, I was here. I lived.
Travel, like writing, is permission to be curious. To be vulnerable. To see, really see, others. 
Sometimes I get caught up in how imperfect I am. How I mess up in relationships. How I don’t give enough or how I expect too much. But travel, like writing, reminds me that I am a soul doing what I can in this human body and mind. 
At the end of it all, I hope to have collected many stories. ❤️📝
  • You know when you walk through a door like this, you are going to get some AMAZING food and hospitality! And that is exactly what we discovered at Point Break Cafe on Shelter Island this morning. Swipe to see the yummy breakfast my husband and I shared at this ‘greasy spoon’, a favourite of locals.
  • I traded in the Canadian winter for a bike and some palm trees 🌴 #traveltuesday #sandiego
  • Are any two of us even looking in the same direction? 😂 Well, isn’t that the truth about life? We may all have different dreams and goals and needs, but true friends are always there with you...to take a photo in a room full of toilets.
#friendship #lifelessons #bathroomselfie

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