Rainy Days...

It isn't that I don't love a beautiful sun-filled weekend, but sometimes it's nice to have a rain-out. My plants were thirsty because I'm not one to get out and water. They appreciated Mother Nature correcting my negligence. I appreciated it, too.

Rainy weekends are the perfect excuse to stay inside and get things done. I actually cleaned out the refrigerator (what WERE all those science experiments?), made some edits to a story that's been sitting for a while (months), and read a good book (one of those guilty pleasure kinds). Had the sun been beaming, it would have seemed a sin to stay inside. End result? I'd be growling today about how the weekend went by so quickly without me getting a single thing accomplished.

I'm feeling good, not in small measure due to the number one favorite rainy day activity at our house...



Hello Sunshine

We turned the clock forward Saturday night. I don't know about you, but I'm still trying to adjust to the time change. I can't figure it out. How can the loss of one tiny hour cause such complete exhaustion?

Maybe there's more than meets the eye to sixty minutes. It isn't long enough for a marathon, but one hour does provide plenty of time for more modest achievements. Let's see. I could stain a mirror. I could weed junk from the basement. I could weed junk from the garden. I could fly a kite. I could read. I could write an essay or outline a short story. I could take a walk.

Perhaps there's a better reason for daylight savings time than reducing energy costs. It's a gift in disguise that gives us time to do a little something special. And that could be the start of something big.

What will you do with your extra hour of daylight?

By the way, if writing is on your goal list, here's some great news. There are many submission opportunities in the "Not Your Mother's Book" series. Essays chosen will be similar to Chicken Soup essays, but with a little extra sass. To learn more, check out the blogs of my writer friends Dianna Graveman and Linda O'Connell who are collecting and editing stories for two of the books. You can do it! Remember, you now have an extra hour!