Thursday, 11/16/2017 6:06am Dear Azzie, Yesterday you turned 22 months old. You are two months short of TWO YEARS. Where has the time gone? This time last year we were able to fit you into a carved pumpkin. This year you sat in your high chair, decorated your own pumpkin, and sang Moana songs. Uncle … Continue reading {Dear Azzie, Love Auntie} 22 months
How does this make me feel? Scared. Alive. Embarrassed. Like I’m shouting (#fontmatters). Like I’m drawing attention to myself. Like a fraud. I don’t write everyday. I have nothing published out there in the writing world. I have many unfinished stories. It’s like I have nothing to back this claim up. Fake. I’m a fraud. … Continue reading I Am A Writer.
I took a lot of pictures today. I took some of the walk Anthony and I took around Meadow Vista. I took some of the berry bushes along the side of the road and the sunlight. I screenshot the homepage of the YouTube channel I subscribed to earlier today. I took a selfie of us … Continue reading Sunday Sweetness: The Dirty Dishes Edition
Last Wednesday I posted this photo on Instagram and Facebook: With these words typed below it: This semester Wednesday nights look like this. Anthony works after Program so we meet at the Senior Center early before Bible Study. I bring him food and usually coffee (this week it was orange juice) and we talk about … Continue reading Word.
I have been thinking a lot lately of writing short stories and putting them Out There -- either on this blog or, more recently, Wattpad. In Chapter 6 of DIY MFA, Gabriela Pereira writes about ideas and how do you know if this idea is The One. For book-length projects she suggests writing short stories … Continue reading On Short Stories and Old Facebook Notes
Music is powerful. You can hear songs that were so important and meaningful to you from childhood and high school again in your 20s and know 99.9% of the music and lyrics and, at the same time, be transported back to a memory that you associate with those lyrics and tune. At my parents' house … Continue reading Blog-tember Challenge // Day 6: What I’m Listening To
I have enjoyed many memorable birthdays. For my 18th birthday, my parents and sister threw me a surprise party (my cousin wrote me a song!). When I turned 19 (or 20), I was working at McDonalds and some of my church family from Rescue showed up at the end of my shift. (That was a … Continue reading Blog-tember Challenge // Day 5: A Memorable Birthday
Reading... Coffe Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk // I've had this checked out from our friends' library since February (yes I'm that person). I'm really liking it so far. Watching... the anime Fullmetal Alchemist. No, it's not on Netflix, but you can watch here. Trying... Blog-tember! I want to be challenged … Continue reading Blog-tember Challenge // Day 4: Currently
I first heard about Blog-tember on the Chasing Creative podcast (Episode 4 with Leah Van Ert) and that was like last month. Well because it's September now it popped up in my Instagram feed and I have been wanting to blog more, so I'm jumping in a couple days late—and now a day behind—to the … Continue reading Blog-tember Challenge // Day 3: Summer Favorites
August 27th, 2016 // Winding through the canyon on Highway 49 Saturday morning, I listened to the very first episode of the STORY podcast, which you can find on iTunes. (It's essentially a way for the people who attend this conference to stay connected to it all year around). And honestly I don't think it … Continue reading Let’s Change the World
