Freda's Place

Freda sings "Same Old Lang Syne" and wishes you a happy New Year!   Click "Read More" to see the video.

It's been a while since I've spoken from the pulpit in UUtopia.   The start of the new year seems as good a time as any.  There will be no sermon.  In its place, I'll be leading a guided meditation for making a new beginning.  This meditation and the service will be accompanied by music from Mozart to New Radicals.  I do hope you will join us at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 7.  in UUtopia, Second Life.  Congregants gathered for a service in 2012 Weekly Service: New Beginnings Thursday, 1-7-2016 6:30 PM PST UUtopia, Second Life  SLURL To http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UUtopia/31/32/22

Please visit  Stephanie Mesler's Soundcloud pages to hear "Time Management" read by the author.

Tea Talk For Writers 4 pm US Pacific Freda's Office, Diva Press, Second Life   Join us for this open and polite discussion of all matters writerly.  All writers in all genres welcome, no matter their experience level.  Come to talk about issues that affect our work as writers.      Live Literature Presents Trolley Trollop Takes On New Year's Resolutions 5pm US Pacific Freda's Place Café, Second Life  

January 2, 2015   The new year has started well -- organized and productive, just as I envisioned.  The trick will be maintaining this newly established routine.  The routine of which I speak is one that allows me to use Second Life and Inworldz and other virtual worlds as vehicles for doing my first life work, one that gives me the freedom to be inworld as needed and not when not.    In virtual worlds, I am learning to say no rather more quickly than I am inclined to say yes.  That is a lesson I learned ages ago in my first life.  I figured somewhere along about 1987 that it is much easier to say no and then change one's mind than to say yes and have to renig on promises made.    For some reason, that reality was not immediately apparent to me in virtual settings.  Maybe it's because what we do in virtual worlds is ALWAYS optional, so saying yes to requests for my time, talent, and input seemed not quite so real as...

I plan to celebrate the New Year by taking a day off from virtual worlds.  December 31, I am going to take a personal retreat in real life.  I'll spend that day with my dog, my cat, and my partner, focusing on what really matters to me.  There will be candles lit, poems read, music listened to.  There will be good food and some time spent outside.  Mostly, I'll be taking deep breaths in preparation for the coming year's challenges.    2015 will be the year in which I publish my first full-length, illustrated novel, Escape From Pig Hill .  It will be the year I publish the first Ermengarde the Expansive story I have written in twenty years.  There will be a new collection of poems and at least two new short stories.  2015 is also the year I will begin publishing in Second Life, possibly elsewhere, and it is the year I will become much more deeply entrenched in RP.    There will also be changes in my personal life....