The ICI Experience:

What’s your writing style? Do words just flow from your mind to your fingertips? Do you like handwriting first? Do you plan your posts? Title first or last? Where do you write best? I like to think that my writing style is straight forward.  In truth some people might actually think it's blunt.  But that's me so there you go. Yes, words flow from my mind to my fingertips to the keyboard.  Sometimes for a complicated post I hand write it first.  I've used one book so far that I like very much, Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico. She uses a technique called " clustering " that I find very helpful for organizing complicated topics. I guess I do plan my posts.  Whenever I have an idea I quickly create a draft post with the gist of it or maybe just the link that inspired it and a title that I hope will help me identify it later.  Because right now I have about 150 draft posts for this blog.  So far I have never had any problems with w...

Describe your ideal day. How would you spend your time? Who would you spend it with? Have you had this day? If not – how could you make it happen? I'm late with this post; just couldn't seem to get it out yesterday, but I did a lot of other stuff.  Then I was going to quit the challenge all together but the weekly HAWMC email from WEGO came today and I was inspired to continue.  I was also reminded that I still have two "Get out of post free" days that I can use.  But I liked what I thought of for yesterday's post so much that I'm going to go ahead and do it quickly. My dream day is going to the beach. Nothing too fancy, just going to a nice white sand beach to take advantage of the therapeutic benefits of being there.  I would take someone with me who would enjoy it like I do.  My sister and niece come to mind. I'd have comfortable lounge chairs, shade available if we got too hot and needed a break from the sun, good beach food like fresh fruit...

Write a list of the 10 things you need (or love)most.  Here they are off the top of my head and in no particular order: My cup of tea in the morning .  Organic Earl Gray, green and chai are my favorites.  With a teaspoon of local, organic honey and some unadulterated cream from a real farm.  My mom.  Without her I don't know where (or if) I would be. My sister.  Because she really seems to get how I feel about living with ICIs, and how much I would like to be living and working without them. Our dog Miley. Our cat Buttons. My adjustable bed. U-shaped neck pillows. The warm water therapy pool. Water dancing. Digital photography. Photo courtesy of the Shabby Shoppe Blog.  And it comes with a couple of lovely recipes for Chai tea.

So we challenge you, start with this phrase: “Today I looked in the mirror and…” (Or another sentence you come across.) But sure to – Keep writing. Don’t stop for 15 minutes. Don’t edit. Post. Go! OK.  Here goes.  12:07 pm Today I looked in the mirror and thought I knew HAWMC was going to be difficult this week because I have something extra and major to do every day this week.  So here it is Thursday and I have nothing prepared for today.  At all.  Maybe I should just try to get to Day 15 and stop there.  I have so many other things going on.  Doctors appointments, lab work appointments, trying to get the reason for these daily headaches diagnosed, dental appointments, my teeth are falling apart again - four crowns have to be re-done but I just finished #3 yesterday.  I also have a major special project I'm working on, I guess you could say consulting on, for a local non-profit.  But I made the commitment to try to post every day this...

Imagine your health focus or blog is getting its own theme song. What would the lyrics be? What type of music would it be played to?  My theme song would be Some Days You Gotta Dance by the Dixie Chicks.  Go ahead, crank it up and move if you want to... I've learned to dance in mind when I can't do it in reality.

Try writing script-style (or with dialogue) today to recap an awesome conversation you had this week. I've had a blessedly quiet week.  I haven't had many conversations and at first I didn't think a single one could be considered  "awesome."  Then I checked my trusty thesaurus.com and saw that one conversation could indeed be awesome in the sense of the red synonyms to "awesome," below:    AWESOME *informal/non-formal usage Part of Speech: adjective Definition: amazing Synonyms: alarming , astonishing , awe-inspiring , awful , beautiful , breathtaking , daunting, dreadful , exalted , fearful , fearsome, formidable , frantic , frightening , grand , hairy *, horrible , horrifying, imposing , impressive , intimidating , magnificent , majestic , mean , mind-blowing * , moving , nervous , overwhelming , real gone, shocking , something else, striking , stunning , stupefying, terrible , terrifying , wonderful , wondro...