by toby | Mar 21, 2013 | Life
Beauty Venture: fences, by Toby Neal I like the shapes of fences. The repetitive patterns. The powerful metaphor of definition they convey. I've always had a little bit of a thing for fences and walls. Maybe it began with one of my favorite childhood books of all...
by toby | Mar 20, 2013 | Life
The Beauty Venture: bees. by Toby Neal I love bees. I've never been afraid of them, and find their song and hum to be both soothing and invigorating. I love their hard work, their organization, their dedication to their Queen. They exemplify a harmonious and...
by toby | Mar 17, 2013 | Life
The Beauty Venture: collecting beauty for thirty days. I’ve decided to “collect beauty” for thirty days. I don’t even really know what that means, or what it will do, but I have a sense it will be life quality enhancing. As a mental health professional and...
by toby | Feb 28, 2013 | The Writing Life
Harvest ideas through creative daydreaming. Generating ideas through daydreaming: we all do it. Happens in a nanosecond, probably happened when you clicked on the link opening this blog. Daydreaming has many functions to it: mental rehearsing, storing information in...
by toby | Jan 14, 2013 | The Writing Life
Broken Ferns by Toby Neal cover reveal! Two of the things I love most about being an “indie” author is 1) the speed of being able to produce my books as fast as me and my team can develop them and 2) artistic control over the covers. After the recent blog...