Healing Place
Healing Place by Adriana Gomes We all need a place warm and nice like a spot in front of a fireplace in a cold winter night with a steamy cup of tea and a blanket standing by. This place can be a memory, a person or a house, a bench in a park, an […]
Outlining x Quilting
Outlining versus Quilting One of my favorite authors, José Saramago, didn’t believe in Outlining. He had an idea and started writing, moving forward two pages a day, from beginning to end of a work. He didn’t like revisions either. In an interview to Paris Review from 1998 he stated that 90% of his complete manuscripts […]
The Girl Who Could See Far
Time has been a hard to get commodity for me since my kids were born. I talked about it already. My life style; moving frequently because of my husband’s career has made things trickier. Yet I wouldn’t trade the great life we made for ourselves as a family; it’s difficult, but so enriching. We moved […]
More Time
Not time, more of it. It’s been scarce since I became a mother. Worst, it is scornful now. If I’m enjoying myself, it runs away. If I’m dreading the moment, it stays longer, it gives itself “more” to me. It allows me to bask in sorrow. Not consciously, I stumbled on the solution, skepticism. A […]
Forgive me Muse for I have sinned
Forgive me Muse for I have sinned. I haven’t committed a word to paper in a long time. Please pardon my many moments of stillness as your spark shined bright and I wouldn’t make time to explore the possibilities. Please pardon those moments I reached for a pen and decided to grab a cereal bar, […]
Blog Challenged – I heard using an Editorial Calendar helps
Hi, my name is Adriana Gomes, and I’m Blog Challenged. I know I’m supposed to post regularly, pick a day of the week and bam! Do it. I should write every week, every Monday, or Friday or whatever day of my choice, as long as I’m consistent. Then something happens and I’m derailed, just like […]
My best moment of 2012 was outweighed by the worst one, by far.
The year is coming to an end, and lists of 2012 “best” and “worst” everything dominate news papers and magazine covers in most countries of the world. Retrospectives of the nearly finished year share the lists of topics of TV variety shows with resolutions for the new year. To me, the best thing that happened […]
Cooking for The Holidays is a Family Affair
One of the traditions I enjoy every Christmas is cooking with my family. Usually on December 23rd we spend hours in the kitchen prepping for the next two days. We make all the desserts, and everything else that can be done in advance. This year I baked a pumpkin pie and my daughters made red […]
Children Grow and Traditions Change, But in our Home the Christmas Spirit Remains Very Much Alive
In Brazil the night of December 24th is celebrated widely. It’s on Christmas Eve that Brazilians gather to share a beautiful meal with their families and exchange gifts. And we wait until midnight to toast the birth of Jesus. Some families without small children only dine after midnight. And many families dine and go to […]