I want to read more. One of my goals this year is to read at least one book a month. That book for January was supposed to be Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. But look at January, it just…
This Post is Late ‘Cause I Was Too Tired to Write: A Fitness Post
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, writing can be exhausting, and that is because thinking can be exhausting. People tend to think ( actually I don’t know what people tend to think, but this is what I…
Where I’m been & Finishing the Year Strong
So I’m back, and if you’re wondering where I’ve been – tired. That’s where I’ve been. I’ve been tired – just not in the mood to write. Just mentally and emotionally drained by shit that goes down in life. Stress…
The Director*
He hit me with a cheesy opening line that I regret I don’t remember. Followed by several self-deprecating ones that I’m sorry he felt necessary to tell. All before, unsolicited, he revealed that he was a director, and immediately I…
How I Write: A Review of Last Week’s Post
Don’t you hate it when you have to make a decision, and either way you choose you win, but either way you choose you also lose? But anyway, that’s not what I came to talk about, just something that was…
My Rough, Rough, Rough Draft of an Upcoming Post about Networking
Okay so the above is where I want to end and right now for the next 30 minutes, I’m just going to write to get how I felt that night off of my chest. I want to congratulate myself on…
Do People Really Change? My Thoughts on the Topic via Last Night’s ‘This is Us’ Episode
So often when I tell people I’m a writer, they want to know what books I read, or recommend. That’s never an easy question for me, because I don’t really read much. I’m more of a TV watcher. About 20…
Writing in the Absence of Light
They say figure out what you love to do and find a way to get paid for it…or something like that. I think it was Kathie Lee Gifford who said her father told her that. And I guess with this…
The Beauty of Failure
This is not the post I intended it to be. I planned on this being my inaugural interview post. You know, like I promised here all the way back in October. Man, I can’t believe it was that long ago….
The Beauty of Rediscovering an Old Short Story
I wrote a short story over 20 years ago, well, I started it over twenty years ago, and finished it about a year later. It was so long ago that I don’t even remember my writing process. All I remember…
And She Does Journalism Too
Have I told you lately that I’m a writer? I feel like someone could put together a compilation of all the times I’ve said I’m a writer, similar to the one that was done of Meghan McCain constantly saying, “my…
A Writer’s Doubts Get a Little Miracle
I’m a writer, plain and simple. I don’t like to use “aspiring” because, well, writing’s what I do. I’ve been doing it for years – for the majority of my life as a matter of fact – and I think…