It’s quiet enough now to finally hear my own thoughts. We are a month into 2026 and, with this new year, there has just been so much noise. I’m staring out at our frozen lake, lost in thought. Memories return half-formed of a cross-country skiing trip in the sixth grade, hot chocolate, but now there’s…
Category: Career
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,…
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…
Back To Work
Reading Time: 2 Mins Another chapter closed and I will be forever grateful for the last fourteen months. We lived in the moment, celebrated life, I was present and I was able to reignite my creative passions that had been dormant for so long. I finished writing a manuscript, my second, and have built a…
The Numbers Game: Coping With Rejection
Reading Time: 6 Mins I received a rejection email last night at 12:38 a.m. for a short story I had submitted to a popular and prestigious magazine. I knew I was swinging for the fences by submitting there. After all, I am an unpublished author and this was also my first real foray into trying…
The Shortest Month: Looking Back
Reading Time: 2 Mins When I look back at where I was only a month ago, I couldn’t be happier with where things are at with my writing today. It was about six weeks ago that I decided to absolutely make a go of my writing and focus on it as if it was a…