Since my last post I have been struggling a lot with health issues. I have been writing, editing and continuing on creative posts but I've been a bit absent here.I'm still waiting to hear back about tests but the issues I have been experiencing are highly likely to be related to my thyroid because I've… Continue reading Health Issues and Writing Revelations
Every day is part of a story. Too often the big stories overwhelm the smaller ones with rumors of grandeur. Right now parts of my life are threatening transition as others are in the process of transitioning. Toward the end of April I switched from a night shift living roughly between dusk and dawn to… Continue reading Follow This Path Home
If you'd like, I would like to invite you into my life. It has a daily quality that is terribly routine and perhaps mundane--the life of the mind does not thrive in chaos although it is often molded in that chaos to seek something more ordered. When I was a young writer I basked within… Continue reading Sublime Beside Mundane
This month I have felt conflicted creatively. More and more when I write, take pictures or create art I am pushing myself to share it online. Do I want to make money off of it? The short answer is: of course. But there's a more nuanced answer that is also true. I want what every… Continue reading I’m Not a Brand
This is always the easy answer or quote used to goad the audience of said quote into following their dreams and making something of their life. The variations on it exist for everything from weight loss to relationships. It's the happy headline that's meant to direct you to the successful completion of it in the… Continue reading Just Write…Just Live
The last couple of years I have been promising myself I would participate in (and win) NaNoWriMo. There have been two years in which I won. I'm convinced it was a fluke. Not that I doubt that I'm a writer. My cousin once told me that you're not a writer unless you're published. They were… Continue reading Lost along the path
August begins a new journey of sorts. When I moved to Florida from California, I had the first draft of my book finished but I needed to hustle in order to build a new life and as a result I put creative projects on the back burner. I say this without an ounce of regret… Continue reading Moving Forward
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