Like many writers, I aspired to earn the title from a very young age. I felt called to writing in a way I did not feel called to other pursuits — a vocation, not just a “career.” For years, that calling scared me spitless. I was worried that if I didn’t get it right on […]
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Beach-wise
The first day at the beachI scoured the sand, pacing for mileshungry to find something in which to carry away my memorieslike a scrap of paperI could origami and tuck into the spiraling staircase of a conch shellor a moon snail’s once loved homeas though the sea owed me anything. On my second day at […]
Continue Reading2021 Reading Log
At the beginning of the year, I’d planned to write monthly reviews of the books I’ve read, but that hasn’t been happening. So, I’ve decided to try something new: I’ve created a page for my reading log, which will cover the whole year and be updated monthly. January through September are up now and can […]
Continue ReadingIngredient no.1: Rest (12 Months of Happy)
As I was conceptualizing what a “12 Months of Happy” project would look like, I was mulling over what elements I would need (or want) to include. How do you retrain your brain to feel happy after more than a decade of training it to feel unhappy, anyway? Well, I started by making a list […]
Continue ReadingHurry Up and Wait
“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it, hurry to publish it.” Charles Finch When I found this quote over the summer, it was a gut punch. I felt personally called out. (How dare you, Mr. Finch, etc, etc.) […]
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