writing about home, on the Psychology Today blog "One True Thing"

I have waited a very long time to share this photograph. The post had to be special. It had to mean something big.

Today feels like big. This piece, that I am sharing, feels like something. It is called "Our House Is Still His Home." It appears on the Psychology Today blog, One True Thing, created by fellow Shebooks author, Jennifer Haupt. I'm so grateful to Jennifer for this chance to speak on her lovely blog and for sharing my enthusiasm for spreading word about Shebooks.

My own Shebooks was launched yesterday. Here's more on that.

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Silence, Please, essaying on the Psychology Today blog

It's okay. I know you wonder. Is Beth Kephart...losing it? I wonder, too. I reflect on the probability, at odd hours of the day and night. And so, when the Creating in Flow blog of Psychology Today magazine invited me to write about process many weeks ago, I wrote about...this. About my need for silence in a crazy-making world. Many thanks to Susan K. Perry for making room for me.

The piece begins like this, below. The whole can be found here.

The lines had started to tangle. I was in danger of winking out, going cold, vanishing.

Snap.

It was a case of too much. It was a series of scenarios in which I couldn’t remember names or small events, manage the pairings of nouns and verbs, or send an email without either losing a word or making one up (we now have revier, instead of river; celebrait instead of celebrate).

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