how to conquer writer's block (or, how to at least try)

- go running

- ask friends for suggestions

- make scrambled eggs

- call your best friend

- reorganize your closet

- go to a farmers market

- read a blog you find inspiring

- respond to an email you've been avoiding

- exfoliate something

- spring-clean your cell phone contacts list ("Pizza Mike"? Yeah, probably never gonna call him.)

- do jumping jacks in your kitchen

- make lunch, then write about it

- Google your high school boyfriend

- Google yourself and find a link to your teen Israel trip

- free-associate

- make lists on your personal blog