Windy Thursday

It is still warm this morning (53 degrees), and it is also very windy.

I have been a little disorganized and unproductive lately. I think I will re-post my original goals to help me get back on track. This is what I posted last fall:

Officially, the sabbatical covers the period from late January until early May, but I plan to take advantage of the entire time from today until the following semester. That gives me 10 months to make significant progress on my writing projects. They include four books, all of which are under way, but none of which are published yet.

• I Just Want to Be Happy (a spiritual memoir)
• The Elements of Academic Writing (a brief textbook for English Composition I students)
• Whither the Revolution (a historical novel about the revolution of 1968 on three levels)
• Mindfulness of the Mass Media (a book about becoming media literate in a media-saturated world)

I also plan to do some other things on my sabbatical:

• Attend Writers Conferences
• Continue writing poetry
• Compile a notebook of previously published articles
• Read more frequently
• Renew my running practice
• Deepen my meditation practice
• Practice yoga
• Be happy