Simplifying Life and Being Happier // Trina O'Gorman
I spent most of my childhood in the suburbs of Maplewood, New Jersey, where on school days, some kids still walked home for lunch to nicely painted colonial homes with... Read More
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Revisiting Your Writing // Trina O'Gorman
Honestly, I don’t know how they do it. And by “they” I mean people who don’t keep notebooks. People who don’t write down their thoughts at all. How do they... Read More
The Art of Living Simply and Letting Go // Trina O'Gorman
About two weeks ago, maybe even longer, I pulled about five storage bins out of the crawl space and into my bedroom. I opened them to look for the size... Read More
An Ode to Nature’s Song // Trina O'Gorman
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.’ Albert Camus I’d be surprised to discover that the feeling is not universal or... Read More
Bits of This and That: Artifacts Tell Stories // Trina O'Gorman
It breathes. Well, it doesn’t literally breathe, as we do, taking air into our lungs, inhaling and exhaling. But it breathes, in that it is alive, pulsating with the beat... Read More
The Art of Thanks // Trina O'Gorman
Much of what I’ve learned from life, I’ve learned from stumbling around in it -- mostly making mistakes, but sometimes getting things right. The rest of what I’ve learned, I’ve... Read More
Personal Writing and the Collective Heart // Trina O'Gorman
I have circled back to this piece, which is about the power of expressive writing, with new thoughts swirling around in my head. Friday, January 27, 2017 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day,... Read More
The Stories We Tell Ourselves // Trina O'Gorman
Joan Didion, who would now be in her 80s, is a good friend of mine. Of course, she doesn’t know this. In fact, I’ve never even met her, but... Read More
Traveling Wide: Experience the Traveler's Notebook Caravan // Trina O'Gorman
-- It takes us 39 minutes to get from our Montclair, New Jersey train station to Penn Station in New York City. We are, literally, at the doorstep of one... Read More