Progress Update (with Pics!)
I’ve had my head down, trying to make something happen over here, and since it’s been a while I thought you might like an update.
I’ve had my head down, trying to make something happen over here, and since it’s been a while I thought you might like an update.
You know how the skirt that I’m making is going to have box pleats? Well, after much research this weekend about fabrics, elastic, and sewing in…
I finally have a plan, and this is it.
Some days the gray clouds won’t budge.
Do you find yourself going back to the same colors over and over again in life?
A quick check-in on where I’m at these days and I where I am (maybe? possibly? who knows, really) going
Apart from my husband and kids, not a single part of my adult life has ever come close to feeling as right as the time I spent working on that book. So why, oh why, did the words go away? And will they ever come back?
I have spent yesterday and today working on my book, which feels great because I haven’t written anything in something like a month. December is the…
A novel looms as large as Kilimanjaro, but I’m tired of being afraid, so I’m trying my best to shake off the fear.
There’s a South Park episode in which Eric Cartman et al. get so sucked into an online video game that they end up practically leashed to…
When I was young, we had a plaque hanging up in our house that said “THINK” in bold block letters. It was my dad’s, and it…
Practice makes perfect, or so goes the saying. But perfect? I don’t want to strive for perfection. That just turns me into a stress monster with…
My husband thinks this post is the equivalent of my inner old man raising a shaky finger to the air and lecturing whomever will listen, “Missy,…
These past two weeks, I have been a bit of a disaster. Not as in real disaster, like the people who, as I tell the kids,…
Back in the day, when I had an actual job (at a charitable foundation) and wore black pants (polyester) and heels (weensy) on a regular basis,…