Joy and confidence and peace are fleeting, and — candidly — pretty new for me. I would argue I didn’t really consistently hit high marks in those areas until 2019, and I didn’t successfully start taking an exhaustive inventory of my life, habits, and mindsets until just over two years ago … when I started […]
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She is on her hands and knees, scrubbing the smell of dog piss out of the basement carpet. A deep rage that is familiar but unwelcome consumes her. It’s not the fact that the dog refuses to urinate outside—he is old as hell, there isn’t much that can be done about that. It’s not even […]
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1. Maybe it started on June 28th, 2019. That’s when the kids began their first day of summer holidays. Anticipation melted off of them like an ice cream cone left for dead on a hot summer sidewalk. My husband, Jamie, was smack dab in the middle of his railroad conductor training. I was wrapping things […]
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I want to write you a story, but I don’t know how to get it out of me and into you. It’s too time-consuming and complicated to put into words. I have shit to do today. I can’t be expected to sit at this computer for hours to spin a story that perhaps 10 people […]
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I would describe myself as a sentimental person. I’m scared to throw things away for fear of losing any memory, no matter how slight, that has been attached to them. My six different Spotify playlists, despite supposedly being for different moods and occasions, have all been described as “way too melancholic.” I love getting Snapchat […]
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Trigger warning: domestic abuse and violence My entire life, from the time I was a precious little girl, I wanted one thing: To love and be loved. I held a heart far too big for a world that seemed to reject girls who wore their hearts on their sleeves. I would dream of my wedding […]
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There is no stress-free life out there but, there are better and worse ways we can deal with stress and have a productive life. “It is impossible to live without stressing about something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by […]
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Always dreamed of writing a book but no idea where to start? Let these book writing tips from some of the literary world’s best-selling authors help you… how to write a novel Aspiring author? Let these book writing tips from some of the literary world’s best-selling writers help you… The post Writing tips: Top authors […]
Continue readingPhoto by Jon Tyson on Unsplash A decade ago I wrote a manuscript in which the female protagonist went on dates with 24 different men over the course of one year and had sex with four of them. And only after having had at least three dates with said men. The man whom the protagonist was most […]
Continue readingPhoto by energepic.com from Pexels It’s Saturday, so I am not working at my full-time job. My laptop is open on the only corner of my kitchen table that isn’t covered with junk from the week. My husband and son are cutting a hole in my kitchen floor — seriously. With a Sawz All, which is making my […]
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