I am a capable weirdo.
Memoir
I’ve managed to contain my PTSD into a neat little container. I can’t drive on the freeway. If I do, I panic. Panic of the sort that in my teens ... Read more
Dear Procrastination, (Part 2)
A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration, Letters
Dear Procrastination, I’ve written to you before, but you didn’t reply. You look at me the way my grandmother used to when I asked a stupid question. I get it, ... Read more
What are you doing this week to make time? Me? I’m willing to change.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
Most weekday mornings I wake at four AM and get to work. I’ve even gotten better at writing on weekends, which I explained in an earlier post–to my surprise–proves harder ... Read more
Staring is necessary.
A Room Of Your Own, Memoir, On writing
My IB students are reading The Things They Carried now and just finished The Great Gatsby. The order in which you teach books brings to light different aspects of them. ... Read more
It is called a mobile, after all.
Be here now., Goals, Inspiration, On writing
We had an unexpected dumping of snow in Olympia that afforded me a Monday snow day yesterday. This allowed me to easily and leisurely meet my word count for the ... Read more
Don’t push it. That’s my advice this week. Happy writing!
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Goals, On writing
Much better this week. Not perfect, but better. I wrote six of seven days. Slowly, but that’s my pace right now. I mostly got to bed by nine on the ... Read more
An invitation to let go and burn, baby, burn.
A Room Of Your Own, Goals
Getting to sleep earlier proved harder than I thought for a few reasons this week. I’ve got a lot crammed into my weekdays and last week was an especially bloated ... Read more
Duh. Sleep. How could I neglect that?
A Room Of Your Own, Goals, Memoir, On writing
Except for Friday when I needed to wake early to be on a bus to a Speech Tournament by six, I woke at four and wrote every morning last week. ... Read more
And so it’s a new writing year.
A Room Of Your Own, Goals, Inspiration, On writing
I updated my daily writing log template to better suit my needs, tore out all the pages logged in 2016, and tossed them in the recycling bin. I made a ... Read more
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Book Reviews!
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout My rating: 4 of 5 stars I needed a book like this. An uncomplicated book that in spite of how busy and ... Read more