Reading Time: 3 Minutes Last night, midway through family movie night, we raided the snack cupboard and I offered my daughter cookies or chips. She didn’t want either, so then I offered her some mixed nuts. “Ew, gross,” she said, rolling her eyes so hard I think I saw one briefly pop out of her…
First Draft
Last October, I spent some time in the woods and finished writing the first draft of my book. There was no Internet, so I had left myself some blanks and notes to fill in, and I was picking up where I had left off writing two years earlier. This weekend I finally sat down to…
Retreat
Reading Time: 2 Minutes I did a thing. I’ve booked myself away on a writing retreat. It has been an embarrassingly long time since I’ve picked up my WIP, but I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately and getting excited to actually get back into it. I have over 51 000 words written. I…
Analog
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Noise. Everywhere, noise. Notifications, red dots, calls, texts, messages, pictures, chats. It was all getting to be a bit too much. I was in need of a digital detox pretty badly, so a few weeks ago I set aside the weekend where I would be without my phone. This coincided with…
Anemoia
Reading Time: 6 Mins I have always been a storyteller. I have always been a storyteller. In 3rd grade I wrote Dwarf Island and my teacher had it bound. The librarian put it on the shelf so other kids could sign it out. Thank you to all the teachers out there helping the smalls feel…
Back to our regular scheduled programming
I read the last few lines of my last blog post from June 24th, 2023, now and just shake my head. Four days later my mother died. This is the first public space in which I’ve written those words. But this is not a post about that. This is a post about a person, me,…
Thespacebetweenthewords
Find me a writer with a day job and I’ll find you someone who regularly struggles with balance. I went from unemployed, growing my hair long, getting up and writing every day to gainfully employed, cutting my hair, getting up and barely getting a prompt written before my day explodes into meetings, conversations, calls and…
One Year Later…
Reading Time: 4 Mins Well here we are, one year into this new writing journey, and if you are reading these words you are a part of it, so thank you. Whether you followed a link on twitter, have this blog bookmarked and check it daily (and are disappointed 59 days out of 60) or…
Weekend Woolgathering – 1/14/23
Reading Time: 6 Mins This past week I hit my three-month anniversary in my new role after being out of work for fourteen months after being with a company for eighteen years. And I am loving it. The people, the work itself, the ability to draw on my previous experience and the empowerment to bring…
The History Of Everything – VSS Weekly 12 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins In the space between heartbeats, everything was gone, as if the wick of time itself had been snuffed out. In the after we roamed, souls without form, at one with the cosmos, aimless, until the shadowblack of spent stars found their shape again and awoke. We were aware of all things…