Becky Blab

This whole month has been an extreme time of self-reflection, what with the big birthday and winter hibernation setting in. Before setting my new year’s resolutions, which I never do but thought this is a good time to start, I wanted to look back once more at the previous year before laying it to rest [...]

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I turned 30 on Monday. While I used to wonder why people felt shy about announcing their age, I think I’m beginning to understand. As I approached this milestone last week, I began to feel more like I was marching to the grave than I ever have before. It wasn’t necessarily scary, but it made [...]

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This time of year naturally lends itself to reflection: shorter, colder, darker days; falling leaves; annual holidays and approaching winter wonderland. It has now been six months since we left India, and it is hard to believe. Here are six observations or lessons that I have learned in this time. 1. There’s no going back. [...]

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I’ve written a guest post at Writer’s Rising on the creative process and my struggles to balance it with technology:  Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the so-called “creative process,” thanks to a couple books I’ve been reading: Gail McMeekin’s “12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women” and Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s “What We Ache For.” [...]

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I’ve written an updated sharing of my account of life before & after Inner Engineering, as a guest post on Writers Rising. An excerpt: Anger, resentment, desolation—they followed me like stowaways, surfacing during my darkest moments. My health suffered as a result, and I knew that unless I tried something drastic, I’d never recover. So [...]

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