As a writer and a storyteller, it’s hard to admit that I don’t know how to begin. Something is missing. Not something practical like a pencil or keyboard. Not something existential like creativity. This isn’t writer’s block. The something missing is more like having moved to a new house that… [Read More]
Filed Under: Experiences, How I got "here", Interesting People Tagged With: Cat, Elsa
Dystopia. Noun. 1: An imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives. 2: Anti-Utopia. Apocalypse. Noun. 1: The complete final destruction of the world. 2: An event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale. My imagination has been for some time residing, happily, in one… [Read More]
Filed Under: Books and Reading, How I got "here", Outside my comfort zone, Storytelling Tagged With: Apocalypse, Dystopia, One Second After, social collapse, survival, The Day After, Walking Dead, Zombies
I don’t remember what it was like to write without a computer. To have to erase, leaving ‘crumbs’, and rewrite. Or, to crumple the page and start over. To cross out and to pencil in a new line squeezed above or snaked down the margin. Do you? I suppose I… [Read More]
Filed Under: How I got "here", Writing Tagged With: Bic Stic, Dixon Ticonderoga, Kaypro II, Mac II Performa, typing
Six months past the Polar Vortex and a winter season spent, literally, under a blanket, I have a new found love for summer. The balmy breezes coming through the window screen, heavy with the fragrance of everything alive: sweet grass and milkweed blossoms, pungent boxwood, locust trees in bloom. With… [Read More]
Filed Under: Experiences, Game-changers, How I got "here", Outside my comfort zone Tagged With: Fragrance of Summer, Melanoma, SPF, Summer breeze, Sunscreen
Right now, the world is filled with shows of “giving thanks.” We are all thankful for health, employment, family, education, food on your plate, clothes on your back, and a roof over your head. Those objects of gratitude are really low hanging fruit. Lately, I’ve been looking back at parts… [Read More]
Filed Under: How I got "here", Old jobs Tagged With: Being thankful, Cashier, Change my life, minimum wage, scanning groceries, Tops Market
The phrase ‘screen time’ is in the Oxford dictionary: Screen time: noun : the time allotted to or occupied by a particular subject, actor, etc., on film or television: these characters deserve more screen time : time spent using a device such as a computer, television, or games console. The… [Read More]
Filed Under: Business of Freelance Writing, Finding the artist in me, How I got "here", Old jobs Tagged With: Change my life, Creative Process, Life Lessons, Screen Time