I write things, and then I try to get them published. I send them to literary journals and online ‘zines, and occasionally, one of them gets picked up, and then I celebrate with my complimentary copies. Lately, now that my kids are a bit older, and I’ve been trying to take myself more seriously, I’ve …
When “No” is really “Yes”
One of my friends didn’t like the title of this blog. “I’m working on saying “no” more,” she said. “I think I say yes too often, and I end up doing things I’m not passionate about.” We were on the playground, our kids leaning back on a tire swing, lolling crazily from one side to …
life isn’t an on/off switch
I like checking things off lists. Dishes? Check. Returning emails? Check. Meeting goals? Check. There’s a cleanliness to a completed task, a finished goal, a project brought to fruition. But I’m realizing that the most important things in my life can’t be checked off. Because there isn’t a point where they’re done, or finished. They …