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Elizabeth Gilbert and motherhood
Where other women hear that tick, tick, tick and they’re like, “Must have baby,” for me, it was like, tick, tick, tick, “boom.” [Laughs] It was a biological clock, but it was attached to a bunch of...
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I’ll look back on this…
Sometimes, I do think about the legacy of the things I do online. Sometimes, I do think about old posts that I’ve written and second guess myself about posts to be written. But I’m learning that in...
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Write what you wish
In thinking about what to do about my postings here, I returned to the above quote by Virginia Woolf. Writing what you wish to write. I don’t have long stretches of time to write, but I do sometimes...
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In case you’re new here, I thought I should explain that I don’t normally do this. I don’t normally blog everyday, or, as I decided this morning, every week day, but for 30 days I am. So, this is kind...
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Being a parent is important work
When I started motherhood, I had this thing in my head that the most important work I needed to do in a day was the work that didn’t involve my children. It was my writing that was important. It was...
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Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
I didn’t know that I had a writing comfort zone. I assumed, when I starting pitching myself nationally that in writing about motherhood and parenting I was only writing what I wanted to write. And I...
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I am a student
My high school experience was unfortunate, colored mostly by bad hair, poor clothing choices, and social awkwardness that prevented me from really taking myself serious. I can’t say I liked high...
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Old Clothes
In sorting through their baby and toddler clothes the other day, and in putting them away, in boxes I purchased, I was reminded of writing. I was reminded how, through writing, we’re given the...
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Write beautiful things
I think as a self-identified “new” writer, my writings were colored in my own insecurities and doubts, doubts about myself, the world, and how others would receive me. One of my biggest insecurities...
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Quiet
I haven’t meant to be so quiet in this space. I think when I wrote my last post, I had imagined that I would be making some kind of “come back,” the kind that would make coming back on a weekly basis...
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