Michele Cushatt - Writer and Speaker

Update From My Writing Desk

Posted on 09. Aug, 2010 by Michele.

The life of a writer is feast or famine. Predominantly famine. But the past couple of weeks have been more feast-like, and I’m not complaining!
Last Monday I found out my article “Frugal Friendship” was featured in MOPS International, Inc. MomsNext E-zine. To read the article, click here. It’s a short piece on creative ways to [...]

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The Past Few Weeks …

Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Michele.

I know, I know. I’ve been a bad blogger. Life has been crazy the past month, and I haven’t been posting on my normal M-W-F schedule. For that I’m sorry. But I have good reason! Here’s a cliff notes version of what’s been happening the past THREE weeks:

A (much needed) Family Vacation: This is an [...]

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Home Again

Posted on 05. May, 2010 by Michele.

Okay, so my two weeks of solitude turned into more like three and a half. But I was distracted by sand, the sound of the ocean, the stack of books demanding to be read and the iPod in my ears. Can you blame me???
P.S. It’s good to be back in the groove. I missed you! [...]

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Two Weeks of Solitude

Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by Michele.

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Just me letting you know that I’m signing off [...]

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What the Cross Means to Me

Posted on 02. Apr, 2010 by Michele.

Freedom. Freedom from a lifetime of collecting debts bigger than I can pay.
Relief. Relief from always doing, trying, striving.
Grief. Grief that the only person who knew how to love perfectly had to die for the rest of us who still screw it up.
Joy. Joy that death is no longer the last page of the story.
Peace. [...]

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