"I admire your accomplishments and how you are able to juggle everything, that is great. How do you always manage to keep it all balanced?" The response came in reply to one of my Instagram stories that I created on a day when I was off from work and was totally indulging myself – massage, … Continue reading The Myth Of Keeping It All “In Balance”
Maybe if you like to write, like I do, you will understand this. I haven’t written anything for this space in a week or two, because I don’t have the perfect thing to say. I have lots of ideas, but they’re sort of nebulous in my head and I don’t have the perfect words to … Continue reading Peak
Here I am. I am here. Lately I’ve been living, and writing – but mostly in my head. I try to capture little moments and feelings and figure out how I’d put the words down on paper; I write and edit the sentences in my mind until they fit together and tell the story, and … Continue reading Here I Am
I tend to think of myself as a work-in-progress because there are always at least a few areas where I am trying to either change grow or improve (and I hope to always be a work-in-progress). Right now, a lot of the work I’m doing on myself is focused on developing the inner strength and … Continue reading The Dragon
Something happens when you write shit down. As soon as you put it out there – whether it’s ink on paper or characters on a screen – you’ve created something that didn’t exist before. It becomes real. It becomes a thing. It has power. I write a lot of things down all of the time. … Continue reading In Writing
I have been writing for several years, usually just for myself. In my old leftover reporter top-spiral notebooks or in fancy journals I’d find in the bookstore; in the margins of meeting agendas; on napkins and on coffee-stained flyers flipped over and covered with my frantic scribbling – that actually happened once, when I was … Continue reading Welcome
