I closed out 2021 on a challenging note: losing my last living grandparent to COVID. I had wanted, initially, to do a retrospective of the year. I saw a lot of my peers putting out similar content, which inspired and galvanized me and filled me with an odd sort of despair. Anymore it seems that… Continue reading 2021 Redux & Redemption
Whether personal or pandemic-sized, grief is heavy. You can spread your grief over an entire world or narrow it down to one acute pain point; either way, the effort of carrying it will wear you down.
Or, My On-Going Struggle With Social Media Every morning in November I got up and made a cup of velvety, floral coffee from the Iconoclast Roasters blend that my friend Amandah brought me. While I did make three Instagram posts this month, none of them were about the coffee. I didn’t take any pictures of… Continue reading No-Post November
I haven't written a blog in a while, but I promise there is actual writing-related content buried in here. Just let me wax poetic about the seasons first, real quick (...and if you don't have the time and you know what you're here for, I'll throw a little header over the writing bit, so you… Continue reading Writing, Rewriting, Those Endless Summer Days & The Rude Return of Fall
Image description: three pale pink roses stacked in the crease of an open book. Photo credit: Pixabay via Pexels.com I had a more serious post planned for my Feb wrap-up but I decided to bump it to the end of March because it’ll keep. Right now the ice in the river is breaking up, the… Continue reading A Love Letter to the Library, Fan Fiction & Romance Authors, and Friends in a Pandemic
There’s nothing I can say about 2020 that hasn’t been said already. It was a fever dream, a shitshow, a mess and a disaster rolled into a ballistic taco and set on fire. Personally, I careened into 2020 still coasting on the wreckage of 2019, which was a difficult and painful year for me. After… Continue reading That’s a Wrap on 2020
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