What I’m Reading Late last year, when I realized there was no way in hell I was going to get anywhere near my 2018 reading…
where wildly different is perfectly normal
Laughing at Chaos Posts
In a world…Where sanity and weather collide…Temperatures will fall…a heroine will rise….Now showing in Chicago…THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL. Five years after the last #$^@#$&^$%^* Polar Vortex, the sequel…
Pick your battles. Not everything is worth the fight, and my god we still have so many ahead of us. This? Worth it.
Nature has the right idea in winter. To everything there is a season, and winter is the season for rest. Hunker down, hibernate, recover from the autumn and gather strength for the spring.
I’ve chosen a word of the year since 2011. Some years have been more…ahem…successful than others, in having my mind follow the word.
So after 13 years of blogging, I find myself at a new place in life. It may reek of feet, stale food that is still on the plate you took to your room four days ago what is wrong with you I swear to GOD I’m gonna have words with your mother!, and Febreeze (yes, it’s bottle of liquid chemicals, but for the love of being the only female in the house, can we lift a grateful HALLEFREAKINGLUJAH to the heavens above for Febreeze?), but it’s calm(er) here. There are fewer tears, and those that do break through are about 51/49 in favor of tears of laughter over those of pain, frustration, and fear. I have more time for projects that interest me, more time for my students, more time for life.
I often wish I felt as confident as my professional head-shot portrays. I see that photo and think, “That woman’s got it together. She’s solid…
If it’s the first day of November, it’s the first day of NaNoWriMo and writers around the world are swinging between exhilaration and sheer panic.…
From Thanksgiving 2017 to Memorial Day 2018 I lost 26 pounds. Since the end of May I’ve gained back nearly ten. I can feel it…
Intensity is something I am intimately familiar with, in so many different respects. In music, it’s something I struggle to get my students to do. It’s…