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I’m ready to Shine!

Author: thenicknick

sunshineOne of the most important changes I wanted to make after my return from California and Yahoo! was to begin writing for Shine.  After the close of the Silicon Valley Moms Blogs, which includes Deep South Moms, I was feeling at a loss.  I needed a new direction to take my writing.  And thanks to Yahoo!, I seem to have found it.

They encouraged us to write for Shine.  My jaw dropped, I’m sure.  Shine?  Really?  And who doesn’t know Shine.  It’s one of the biggest pages on Yahoo!.  It gets a ridiculous amount of traffic.  To top it off, many times Shine pieces are featured on the front page.  FRONT PAGE on Yahoo!!  What can I say?

So, yes, I’m ready to Shine.  In fact, I wrote my first article and submitted it.  Now I need to work on my profile there.  I thought getting going with the writing was waaaay more important.  And look at me…less than a week since my return and I’ve already set myself up with Shine, started my Flickr account, and started working on the changes I want to implement on this site.  (Eventually, my blog roll will include all the blogs from all the amazing women who have the good fortune of being part of the Yahoo! Mother Board.  I just have to do a few a day.  It’s time consuming.)

Last night, I was determined to get that article written, only I was tired and I stared at the computer and didn’t want to work at all.  I had my post for Friday done and I had started with the new blog roll and I was pretty much toast.  If I sit around the house too long I start to feel antsy.  Something had to be done.  And so I turned to my partner in crime…Rachel.

We hopped in the car and headed out.  She wanted to know where we were going.  And I knew.  It was time for my thinking spot.

Rachel: Mom, I don’t think you should go swing in that skirt.  It’s too short.

Now, technically, it was a skort.  No one was going to be seeing my business or my underwear.  Of that I was certain.  That was my first thought.  My second was, if it isn’t the pot calling the kettle black!

Still, we landed on my favorite playground.  We parked and began swinging.  I chose to go against the norm, same as always.  Everyone else was swinging facing in toward the playground, but I was there to think, to relax, to clear the muck from my mind so I could move on.  And that wasn’t going to happen watching a bunch of kids running around while whooping like banshees.  Instead, I turned and faced the trees, the nature that I embrace in moderation.  Ahhh.

And soon I was texting HIM.  I knew he wondered where I was, if I was mad at him, if I was running away.  Not this time.  Hopefully, never again.  We have come to a lot of understandings in the recent weeks.  Good ones.  So I was texting and swinging.

Rachel: Mom, are you sure that’s safe?

And that’s when I nearly fell off backwards.

me: Apparently not.

So I stopped what I was doing to focus on what I needed to do.  Release.  Relax.  And then the freedom and the floating and the fresh air took hold.  The words began to flow freely in my head.  It was time to go back to the computer.

The article just came to me, just like I hoped.  And so, here’s a link to my first effort.  Let me know what you think.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 1:52 am and is filed under Reflections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

12 Responses to “I’m ready to Shine!”

July 24th, 2010 at 12:40 pm

Keenie Beanie says:

Nicki, I checked out your Shine article and really liked it. Great advice from someone who’s lived it and come out SHINING on the other side. You go girl!

July 24th, 2010 at 3:07 pm

Meredith says:

Great article on Shine. =) I’m not very familiar with it — I’m guessing I should familiarize myself with it?

July 24th, 2010 at 11:56 pm

Auntie Shirl says:

I read your Shine article. Guess the only way you made it through is one of my old slogans–”One day at a Time”!! I seem to have a problem with my browSer being too old to get into yahoo–gotta do something about that if I want to follow your SHINE!! lOVE YA

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