I am taking another memoir writing class, and this weeks’ writing assignment proves challenging. We are to first draw a timeline of our story, to identify a scene to put the story in motion, and to find the question that is trying to…
Jenny Lawson @TheBloggess has the coolest friends. It’s really not fair. I am belatedly reading/listening* Furiously Happy. First, she mentioned her friend Neil Gaiman @NeilGaiman helping her through her first audio book recording. And I’m like, no way?!. Then she name drops Brene Brown…
When and where I grew up, no one locked their doors. I don’t mean house doors. That’s not that unusual. Not even now. I mean car doors. Not only that, but people even left their car keys in the ignition. I was in…
I took a leave from work over the summer, effectively taking off June, July and August. I intended to de-stress and to write. Retrospectively, I should have made allowances and plans for both of those things before embarking upon that venture. The chaos…