So whatever happened to those spent grain cooking projects and that stack of journals? How is the $3.00 tomato plant doing, anyway? I am sure you are all lying awake at night wondering about these things, so let me help you sleep through the night with a few updates: The brewer with whom I live …
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I’ve been blogging for about eight months now and should confess that I started the whole thing with a bit (by which I mean, a lot) of skepticism. It was something I mostly thought I should do. I am a writer, writers have blogs; therefore so shall I. Needless to say “should” is rarely a good …
Doing a little spring cleaning of the home office I decided to take a picture of the stack of papers above, before I shredded them. Said stack of papers is a draft of a novel I wrote and I’m not shredding them for any angst-y dramatic book will never be published reason (in fact I …
This wasn’t my best week. We all have them, the ones where we feel like we aren’t quite bringing our “a-game.” The ones that leave us mostly exhausted. I’m lucky that these are few and far between for me. There was certainly a time in my life where they were more the norm than the …
I finished my Master’s Degree at the end of 2011 and therefore am pretty excited about the stack of non-academic reading that is piling up next to my bed in 2012! Here’s a quick dissection of the picture above (from the bottom): Journal- This is a really beautiful one; filled with really nice cottony, fiber-y paper that feels old-fashioned and …
Anatomy of My Nightstand Reading Pile (post-grad) Read More »
I would be embarrassed to admit how long I have had an empty WordPress account, so I won’t. Beginnings are hard, right? Approaching that person you’ve always wanted to meet at a party. The first day of school, all the way from kindergarten to graduate programs. Writing the first words of that paper, novel, short …
