by Havi Brooks | Jul 12, 2010 | my personal practice
I talk to my monsters. Kind of a lot. Last week I talked to the one who doesn’t want me to go on Skabbatical. This time: an especially bizarre conversation with the most giant monster of all: Book Monster. Usually I get a Negotiator to show up. But the only one...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 6, 2010 | my personal practice
The topic? The possibility of going on Skabbatical — my own private version of a sabbatical-that-is-awesome. For three months.* * Reassurances! 1) It won’t be happening for a while. 2) I won’t be skabbatical-ing from the blog or anything I’m...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 5, 2010 | my personal practice
So I was on Official Non-Emergency Pirate Queen Holiday last week. And shared some of my journalings from the Official Pirate Queen Vacation Spiral Notebook. Today: more bits of potential usefulness — related to my business (running the pirate ship), but...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 4, 2010 | my personal practice
Background: the metaphor technique is something I’ve adapted from Suzette Haden Elgin’s teachings. It’s an amazing tool for destuckifying. It’s also how I discovered that I work on a pirate ship and defeated the hackers. And cured my fear of...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 23, 2010 | my personal practice
So last week at Camp Biggification (which was amazing, by the way), I inflicted some serious Shiva Nata on everyone. Epiphanies were had. Worlds were shaken. The usual. And we took a lot of notes. Here are some of my scribbled notes (the ones I’ve been able to...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 9, 2010 | my personal practice
My favorite thing about Shiva Nata is not even the ridiculously clear information it gives about everything in my life. It’s not even the permission to be terrible at something (you have to be terrible at it because being terrible at it is the way you get the...
