“So, What do you do for a living?” I get asked this occasionally when I’m meeting new people. I’m not always fond of talking about myself. It’s much more interesting to hear about something others are passionate about. Most of the time I give a partial answer because my full answer is a bit long.…
Every Friday one of the members of a writing group I belong to on Facebook posts a 100-word flash fiction picture on his blog. Today’s post was this picture. Normally I don’t have time or brain to do these but today was an exception. Please note it is MUCH more difficult to edit down to…
Freelancing makes for some complicated Lyft conversations. It also makes that little line on the jury duty form not nearly long enough as I discovered a few weeks ago. On the form, I put that I babysit a toddler because that’s the job that takes most of my time and that I get the most…
Am I the only one who is starting their new year in late February? Yes? No? I made all these plans for this year and then January flew past, at least for me it did. By the time I’d finished setting my 2018 goals and breaking things into my quarterly goals, it was already February.…
Where’d I go? Why’d I come back? I totally lost track of how long it had been since I updated the blog. Hi folks, sorry about that. I started doing some social media content and business office things for a real estate photographer which included blog posts so my own blog sort of fell to…
When I started writing regularly I had a full-time job and would be forced to squeeze in drafting whenever I could. I’d write on my cell phone in all the normal places; while I was on the bus, during my break, during lunch. I’d also add words to my project at more unusual times; while…
My best friend and I went to a Paint Nite event Tuesday night with a women’s group in our city. There was a Groupon and she promised booze. The bar had avocado fries too. Bonus!! Let’s be clear here. I have the artistic ability of a drunken jellyfish. I can follow instruction pretty well and…
I’m writing a novel. Well, I’m attempting to write a novel. It’s my first so I don’t know how good it is and if anything will come from it. This may just be a pie in the sky sort of– No dammit, I AM WRITING A NOVEL! I have already written several drafts and gone…
I mentioned organizing my house in my goals post and I wanted to give a little more detail here. After fighting through some pretty bad depression for the last couple years I am finally regaining my own emotions, so to speak. I’m getting to work on things I’ve previously been neglecting and one of those…
So in my quarterly goal post, I mentioned that I found monthly goals difficult because it’s so easy for time to get away from me. Please allow this blog post to be exhibit A. Seriously, I knew Monday was coming. I even had a post ready, I just needed to edit it. And yet… And…