I don’t think people talk about the subtle depression you fall into once NaNoWriMo is over. For those of you who aren’t aware, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, a decade long tradition of writers gathering in person and online to each write 50,000 words (the average length of a novel) over a period …
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A Jug Fills Drop By Drop
Okay, wow, I haven't written about fitness since May. And for awhile I thought about just getting rid of the section all together, but I feel ready to tackle it again. I’ve come to a place where exercise has become a part of my daily life. So much so, that I rarely think about “having …
Hope Is How We Survive
Because I am a lover of words, I sometimes get a single word trapped in my head on a loop. The word won’t leave me until I exhaustively research it, wringing out every last bit of meaning, applying the word to my life, drinking the word up like a big glass of water. Only after …
Which One is Gloria Steinem Again?
I spent the entirety of last week bragging about Tuesday night. I was going to spend it with a good friend in Brooklyn, listening to Gloria Steinem speak. I was not shy about divulging my awesome plans to others-- often raising my arms to the sky and saying, “What, what!” But my “whats” fell on …
And Now the Words are Bubbling Up…
It's silly how I've let an education from 15 years ago change the way I write. Silly and embarrassing. But this is how we grow. This is how we change how we write. And this is how we change how we live.
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