When anxiety derails your plans to write

You know the feeling when you’ve realized you’ve done something wrong (even accidentally)? And how much worse it is when you’re in the time between the realization and when the one person who could relieve you of your guilt hasn’t yet? The nervousness. ...

Progressive complications of life

Now that I’m sharing this blog with other people and I hope they actually read it, I’m feeling self-conscious. Like these words have to mean something. Like I suddenly have to make a point with each post. I can no longer ramble and whine. I can’t talk about how I’m...

When you think writing will save you

By the time I graduated college I had spent my entire life living for someone else’s finish line, for the things they wanted for me. And though their intentions were good, when it came time to live for myself, not only did I not know how, I had a better idea of what...

Why do I have to bribe myself to write?

I meant to get started a million times today but things* kept getting in the way.  *Things being the book I’m reading (The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin), our hammock, the leaves dancing in the breeze, and distant memories of my childhood that left me feeling a...