being a writer

I just came off working the corporate show I write every summer. It’s a project that takes all of my resources for the month of July, including being onsite for the week of the event. Though it means long days where emotions sometimes run high, it’s…

I should really stop writing about death. I was going to. I specifically told an editor, “I’m tired of writing about death. I’m going to write about happy things next time.” And then I wrote about death. In fact, I wrote the essay, “Love…

I’ve had an emotionally rough week. It started out with my very sick father-in-law in the hospital and ended up with moving both my father-in-law and mother-in-law into the same long term care facility, and my poor husband’s nerves stretched to their…

In 2016, I made it a goal to do more fun things for myself, unrelated to work or responsibility. That’s when I started going back to gymnastics, and reclaimed the joy of doing cartwheels on the beam and back flips on the floor. I wrote about it for…

A year is a solid chunk of time for learning new things. This is what I know after 2017 . . . 1. If your niece, who is like a little sister to you, asks you to officiate at her wedding, always say yes. And then be honest and heartfelt in what you say…