October Birthday

My birthday was yesterday! It’s the little things, little (and big) discoveries that amount to joy in life. Here are 34, in no particular order: 1. I’m not old. It was in vogue (but not actually funny) to lament about it when I was 23, but I’m over it now. This isn’t the 18th century; […]

Advent Doings

Until a few weeks ago, my writing life looked like this: I could feel the end coming. I could see it in those tiny numbers: 57, 87, 102 words cut. Weeks earlier it had been in the hundreds; if I was especially diligent, a thousand. When you’re trying to condense a novel down by several […]

An Rx for Vitamin M (Moxie)

I am asking myself a number of questions as I ease back into blogging this new, fresh year. Should I blog? Do I have it in me to try again? What am I passionate about? What are my goals? The starting point, at first elusive, was right in front of me. The name of this […]