Writing Archives - Cheryl Ruffing

I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve got Scrivener all loaded and revved up, but where do I begin? Not wanting to let […]

Soon You Too Will Be Silent

My throat began hurting last night, and I didn’t get much sleep, but the dark hours gave me the perfect opportunity to […]

Well, at least for a little while, Roy Barrette, in A Countryman’s Journal, has me determined to keep a daily diary, which, […]

I got out of bed earlier than I normally do and was taken by the morning light in the kitchen and family […]

I have been dusting bookcases, which means going shelf by shelf: taking each book off in turn, dusting it, trying to part […]

Yesterday, my husband, kids, and I enjoyed a just-starting-to-get-cool hike with my daughter-in-law and grandson. I wore a blue hoodie over my […]

On 2 December 2023, I started a manifestation journal, and it went like this: I will build a life that brings out […]

Andrew Holecek’s Reverse Meditation is becoming more important to me as I read it a second time, and as I find similar […]

It’s a beautiful, sunny, temperate October day, so two of the kids and I drove to a local lake to just hang […]

The sun is low in the sky, and to get any of its goodness on my face, I had to opt for […]