by Judith Heaney | May 30, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Because of my husband’s church-related job—he serves as the Director of Traditional Music at a local church near where we live—he gets Fridays and Saturdays off as his weekend, and because of this, I have come to love Thursday afternoons as the lead-in to our weekend....
by Judith Heaney | May 29, 2025 | 365 Reasons
One of the most dangerous words in the English language seems innocuous enough, but, trust me, it’s a dangerous one: should. Despite its danger, I am fairly certain it’s a word many of use more regularly than we ought. And when we do, we use it to inflict some serious...
by Judith Heaney | May 28, 2025 | 365 Reasons
There are two questions I regularly have difficulty answering. The first is what do you do? This one is tricky for me because there is not one thing that I feel captures what I do, but, even more, I don’t like the idea of being defined by what I spend my time doing....
by Judith Heaney | May 27, 2025 | 365 Reasons
In recent weeks I have been trying to map out my life. Again. This isn’t the first time I’ve gone through this exercise and I know it won’t be the last. Even so, I am trying to work out what direction to take with my writing and, because the two are so intertwined,...
by Judith Heaney | May 26, 2025 | 365 Reasons
One of my favorite days of the week is library day. In fact, library day has been a favorite day of mine ever since I was about four (at least that’s how the story goes from my childhood). My mom has told me the story about my love of reading that began when I was...
by Judith Heaney | May 25, 2025 | 365 Reasons
I read recently that on average we make somewhere around 33,000 to 35,000 conscious choices per day. I don’t even think my mind can completely comprehend that statistic because that seems almost astronomical when considered in connection with decision making and...
