As I’ve talked about before, the last several years have really shaken my faith in humanity. Even after living for four years with him in office, it still shocks me that 45 was ever elected. It shocks me that so many people bought into his rhetoric, no matter how vile, bigoted, and hateful it was. […]
I am so tired lately that it’s zapped me of motivation to do much of anything but chill. Which is not very helpful for the creative process and writing, which is a necessary part of well, being a writer. Physically tired, mentally tired… all of the tired! I think most of it is because of […]
pet peeve (noun): a frequent subject of complaint It’s weird how something that is no big deal to one person can irritate the hell out of another. I don’t have a lot of pet peeves, but I definitely have a few. interrupt me ONE more time, I dare you One is being interrupted. I effing […]
I’ve never been good at it. Letting go of people, of friendships or relationships. That kind of thing. Because of it, my boundaries aren’t always what they should be. I grew up in a glass house, in a small town. I came from a long line of lawyers, of politicians, of educators. I was raised […]
I just looked at some of the other blogs that participated in the Tuesday blog meme I did in my previous post. And one thing was very quickly clear. I don’t fit in. At all. And that’s a little lonely. The blogging community I once knew is gone. It’s very different now. Far more conservative […]
The last few years have changed me. Maybe, at least in part, that’s the price of aging. The “with age comes wisdom” thing. Perhaps that is part of it. But I think a bigger part of it has come from both within and without, the price of the Trump years. They were exhausting for me, […]
So blogging definitely fell by the wayside for most of the last two years. I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last posted. A lot has happened since then, life-changing kind of things. Since my last post in March of 2017, I’ve published four books, four novellas, one short, and I’ve been in […]
I want nothing more than to stay in Hawaii when Corey ‘s time is up in the Army. This place is my soul home and it would break my heart to leave. I’ve been doing lots and lots of research, looking for affordable homes in paradise. And that is not an easy thing to do! […]
So it has been a very long time since I’ve written. Life took a downward turn, which I wrote about here. I suppose I had a rough time adjusting to that for a lot of reasons. I had a lot of dark days that really took a lot out of me. Grief is one of […]
I had a homework assignment this week for my Craft and Practice in Creative Writing class. It was an “observation and reflection” free-writing exercise for which we were to take 20-30 minutes in some familiar setting. For the first 10-15 minutes, we had to simply observe on our surroundings, considering the external aspects of our environment. For […]