Category: Parenting
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My New “Collaborative Partner”
My writing has taken to an uptick which I enjoy. My 10 year old son Daniel has noticed that I’m writing again and has asked questions about it (“what are you stuck on? what’ s the story about?” And even though I’m sugarcoating medieval style warfare and domestic issues in the interests of pagecount, it…
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Fear
Fear is an interesting thing. We all have different fears – heights, pain, children, dentists, clowns, ketchup stains and so on – but we all have some of the same fears, too. Failure is a biggie, but in my experience, it isn’t just “failure” that’s the problem. It’s the consequences of failure that we’re afraid…
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IWSG July
July 3 question – What are your ultimate writing goals, and how have they changed over time (if at all)? Ahhh… I’mma write about something else. “Things I Finally Learned After I Got Hit Over The Head With Them.” I’m an “All or Nothing” kind of person when it comes to certain things, like volunteer…
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2017 School Year Resolution
*This s a long and perhaps self-pitying post. If you choose to skip it, I wouldn’t blame you.* Starting at around spring break, this summer has been 4 Iron Man competitions and an Olympic Pentathlon crammed into the course of a full marathon, run at a sprint while juggling live squid. Occasionally a clown chases…
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IWSG August – Pet Peeves
What are my pet peeves when reading/writing/editing? I may have mentioned my obsession with details in the past. Obsession almost to the point of freezing up. Obsession to the point of diving down rabbit holes filled with minutia. Posts written about this obsession to the point where you, my lovely readers, shriek with madness “WE…
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Bad Days
I’ve been having a run of bad days that have been ceaselessly piling up on top of each other. I can track the most recent and notable ones back to about October 2016, and the bigger, even more obvious ones indicating something was not on the level at about February 2016, but the discreet events…
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