Welcome to A Year of Uncertainty. A journaling project and a prompting exercise.

Let’s start with Day 1. I have included the prompt and my own writing. Use anything you like. Maybe light a candle and set a timer for 10 minutes and see what takes shape in your freewriting.

Dana Fox — Watercolor With Me (In The Ocean)

Happy New Year! A little bit of #watercolor #journaling with #coffee… I am offering myself some #grace this year with a #resolution that is easy this: #create more.

My holiday hobby is to paint ceramic Christmas trees. This is my third one this week. 💕🎄

I just drove 1,000 miles, and this radio show on Apple Music was my trusty companion. I’ve listened to it all the way through a few other times… ♥️ If you like classic rock and some country faves, I think you’ll like some of the stories these guys share. Enjoy!

Daily writing gets me through a lot, and I think we’re all going to need some creative outlets through this next year of uncertainty, so I am comping covers for my designer on a little project I hope to launch by January 1.

Also, can we do anything about the widow scenario, where if the husband/spouse dies, the person left gets only one payout of the slightly higher amount, not both?!? Or even just a fraction of the SS collected over a lifetime of work from the departed spouse??!? That money just disappears…

Ha! So my mom says at this angle it looks like a skull but a heart if I flip it around... Here are a few other angles and a gold one… 😉

Sometimes you just want to dream in abstract monochrome. #painting Art show this Saturday!

I am so grateful for friends and family to share these banana puddings with! ♥️

Update: I branded them as “crustless pumpkin pie bites” & everyone loved them! 😉

Mini muffins on a teal cake plate.

These experimental gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin muffins look super adorable, but they are a bit of a fail in the taste/texture department… 🤣🤣🤣 I hope that means everything else for the office Thanksgiving lunch will be delicious! 😉

Glass teapot with silver lid and blurred background.

Nothing like a $2 opalescent teapot from the thrift store to warm up a rainy day. 🫖

A jar of red liquid with apple chunks on a white desk in the sunlight

♥️♥️♥️♥️ Warm cinnamon apples make it feel like the Thanksgiving season! ✨ Just like my grandma used to make… ♥️

✅ morning pages

Next comes more coffee, my daily chat with Mom, and some deep reading, researching, and writing with a side of curriculum planning.

Borrow away! I also had stickers made!

This beauty is hanging in a neat little corner of the MIT campus and listening to so many brilliant secrets. They grow up so fast, it seems, but you just have to paint them and let them go off to college! 😃📚

Author holding a book with the title Poetic Emergencies

When in doubt, keep putting words on the page. 😉