…But sometimes it’s fun to share parts of my life that are not about writing, productivity, or general life perspective. This past Saturday, I made this: The recipe is from the Zingerman’s Bakery cookbook, humorously called the “Hunka Burnin’ Love” cake. It looks rather unadorned (I’m a good baker, but decorating is definitely not in […]
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Winter Word: Release
Happy New Year, everyone! I know I said yesterday that the new year was meaningless, but it still feels surprisingly good to have a fresh start, and I’ve decided to take the opportunity to set a word as my intention. Not for the whole year, because who the heck knows what’s going to happen this […]
November 2020 NaNoWriMo
Four years ago this November, I did NaNoWriMo. For the uninitiated, that stands for “National Novel Writing Month” and it requires the participant to write a 50,000 word draft (a short novel) between November 1 and November 30. It’s verified by an official website, and at the end you receive a certificate. Four years ago, […]
Grief and Creativity
A writing friend of mine asked me why productivity and creativity seem so hard right now. I, too, have noticed that many of my most creative friends are feeling blocked. Unsurprisingly, my answer to my friend had to do with the grief process, which I’ve been writing about a lot lately. Since mid-March I’ve been […]
Parenting Advice
Yesterday when I was scrolling through Facebook (always a mistake) I saw a post in a local group from a woman who was worried by her son’s behavior. He was getting all of his homeschool work done, but every other hour of the day, he was playing video games. She said, “I can’t get him […]
Recap of This Week’s Posts and a Throwback to 2016
Happy Leap Day, everyone! And happy end of February… I’ll be very glad to see March tomorrow. I’ve been doing a monthly retrospective this year, just for my own reflective purposes, and this month was not as much fun to write about as January. We’ve had a lot of illness, some disappointments, too much time […]