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 feel normal, routine. But days, then weeks passed and this space sat idle [...]
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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 that I had was that I was not good enough and that I needed to do a lot of extraneous stuff to [...]
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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 opportunity to sort through things, to put things where we think they should belong, and uncover things, things that have since [...]
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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 school, but I really liked college and graduate school because with all those things out of the way, I could enjoy just being a [...]
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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 was (and I am) writing what I want to write when I talk(ed) about these subjects. I am doing [...]
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