The way my writing day is structured I get two, sometimes three, opportunities to drop 1000 words on various projects. I like writing different projects every day. It makes my brain purr. I feel like I’m accomplishing a lot and even though the progress on each...
There’s a lot going on in the world right now. There’s the nonstop political shenanigans that give shenanigans a bad name, because those are supposed to be fun, right? There’s exploding diarrhea because who doesn’t want that in the heat of...
Sitting in a writing group meeting, knowing that you have years, decades even, more experience than the people in the room, and yet feeling as passed over as dried old turkey a week after Thanksgiving hurts. It creates grief. The never-ending spiral of “what...
In my last blog I talked about how the mind-body divide, or in today’s terms, the focus on work-life balance seems to have broken career balance. And as soon as I hit publish on that blog, I could hear the questions coming. If I’m not supposed to focus on...
The common way we think about work-life or life-career balance is that there is a time for “life” and a time for your career. And like that odd mixture of cranberry sauce and gravy at an (American) Thanksgiving plate, the two really shouldn’t meet....
