There are times when the universe really hammers home a message, and this week it was the above, “writing IS thinking.”  I hate to write.  Almost every academic I know hates to write.  I regularly taunt myself with “Monday Motivators” and writing challenges.  And then someone smart said, “Do you have to write?”  Do I? At a specific time? In a specific way? To a specific deadline? … well, no.

I think that for me writing could be more profitably about finishing a thought and putting it out into the universe in some small way – so here we go …