This afternoon, I had to get my daughter to her toddler dance class. I had to drag my son along with me, because there was no one else to watch him. It was raining, and no one was in a good mood. I was feeling frustrated by an unpleasant pharmacy experience and grumbling about the […]
This Is What My Journal Looks Like
In an effort to break down some of my writing-fear (discussed in Sunday’s post) I’m going to try something fresh. Every night this week, I’m going to post about my day. It’ll be a free-write, similar to the way I write my daily journal. And I’m only going to give myself twenty minutes to do […]
How I’m Going to Stop Being Afraid
I just woke up from a series of dreams where I was deeply afraid of something unknown. In one, I feared my own lack of memory; I spent the dream hunting for a name I’d forgotten. It was the name of my third child, a middle child, a boy. Only when I woke up did […]
Where The Story Starts
Where a story starts is almost never the beginning. A memoir starts at the end and remembers backward. A novel starts at the moment of change. A nonfiction book starts with the point it wishes to prove. We, too, are always starting in the middle. Even at the moment of our birth, we have a […]
The Reason I Blog
It’s been almost two months since my last blog post. In that time it’s been hard to find my purpose for posting. Over my eight years of blogging, I’ve focused on two main reasons for writing on this page, and both reasons have been failing me lately. Reason One: I blog because I have something […]
Summer Reflections
My writing life has been going beautifully this summer– except for this blog! I tend to write blog posts as mini-reflections on what’s going on in my life, and they tend to come spontaneously. But I’ve come to realize that approach only works well during the school year. In the summer, my reflections don’t come […]