Ode to a forgotten blog…
(Cue Alicia Keys) “I-hi-hi keep on fallin…in and out…of love…with-a you.” Poor blog. It’s not his fault. The reality is that grad school taught me something very important this last 5 months. It’s hard. Like, drive your health, sanity, work performance and marriage into the ground kind of hard. Thankfully, all aforementioned aspects of my … Read more
The Paradox of Busyness
A quick scroll will tell you that I’m not winning any awards for world’s best blogger probably ever in my lifetime, but here’s an interesting pattern I’ve found in my writing habits: I’m more apt to blog when I’m busy than when my schedule is virtually empty. Blame it on my anti-social-media husband who would … Read more
Emerging from NaNoLand…but only momentarily
Whoa I didn’t realize it had been so long since my last post. Eek. Well, update: I’m in the middle of my first attempt at NaNoWriMo (translation: National Novel Writing Month). It’s not a script, I realize, but I am learning so much about style and characterization and plot structure–not to mention the immense freedom … Read more
All opposed, say “I”
Can I just be a rebel for a minute? As a writer, I sometimes feel obligated to embrace the elements of story as perfect, absolute, and well-defined. But I’ve always turned my nose up at the idea of an “antagonist.” Perhaps it’s the way they teach it in small-town public schools, but I feel like … Read more
The Hour Defier
Incensed? Provoked? Inspired? Affected? Aroused? Inflamed? Infused? Sparked? Emboldened? I don’t know if any word quite pins the emotion I experience when I read another startup success story. Especially when it comes from @sarahjbray. The girl is a maven of all things media. She is the Napoleon of digital nations. She is master of the … Read more
Marriage…
Sometimes, marriage is like this: … … … … Which usually leads to this: … … … … But mostly, marriage is full of moments like this: Here’s to being made for each other.
Punch Drunk Love
INT. BOOKSTORE CAFE – NIGHT A young woman approaches the counter, both shoulders laden with bags. She whips a careful eye around the perimeter of the room. No outlets. GIRL Tall Pike, please. BARISTA I’m sorry, we don’t carry the Pike blend at our location. GIRL (perturbed) A tall house, then. BARISTA That’s $1.82 The … Read more
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Vacationers
The Monday after vacation…an all-over-blah-waste-of-a-day, right? Not so, if you–like me–have learned the secrets of becoming an effective vacationer. I just spent the last week in a six bedroom beach house with 21 people in lovely Corolla, NC. Almost half of those people were between the ages of 5 and 17. By all reason I … Read more
3 Lessons Learned in a Wasted Lunch Hour
Before I committed to writing a blog post over my lunch hour, I should have come up with a decent idea to write about. Instead, I’ve been typing and deleting different sentences over and over again, checking facebook (for inspiration, of course), checking Twitter (also for inspiration), reading emails, and coming back to stare at … Read more
Shining, Shimmering, Splendid…
Yes, Aladdin… don’t you know me by now? I know it’s been a ridiculously long time since I’ve blogged, but I’m just going to pretend a quarter of a year hasn’t passed since my last post and keep typing. So I’ve now made it through my first week at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, … Read more
This is me.
