Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. This is my absolute deepest, most secret shame… I don’t read. I know that might be a funny or surprising thing to say considering that I am in recovery and could probably shock even the closest of friends with some of my worst drinking stories (only…
Category: Career
On writers… and our middle-of-the-night insomnia
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Writers all have those nights, don’t we? I know I do. It starts out innocently enough. I get up to go to the bathroom. I quickly check my phone. Then something happens in my brain… and I can’t seem to turn it off. I’m writing this…
A year ago, I was single, unemployed, homeless, broke, fat and drunk
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Exactly a year ago, I had just arrived in my hometown of Fort Myers, FL. After 11 and a half happy years as a resident of New York City, I had decided to move back to Southwest Florida with my tail between my legs. Unknown to my…
Here’s what happens when a writer has too many ideas
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. So if you’ve spent any amount of time around me in real life, then you probably know one thing about me: I get easily excited. I don’t know if I would consider myself a super impulsive person, but I’m not not an impulsive person. I think…
Thoughts on turning 31… and the
future of Map Your 30s blog
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. When I first started writing about turning 30 years old and decided to create the Map Your 30s Blog, my idea was simple: I wanted to write about all of the changes happening in my life and I wanted to make the point that life doesn’t…