Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. As a full-time writer and editor, there is something that I am constantly struggling with: Should I write a blog? Back in the day when blogging first started, it was great for any and all aspiring writers. It gave any person the chance to become a…
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Confession: My biggest shame in life is that I’m a writer who doesn’t read
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…
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…
Uh oh! Do I have baby fever?
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. This weekend, my fiancé Adam and I went to meet the 2 1/2 week old baby of one of our friends. It was one of those “baby greeting” type parties, which I admit I have never attended before, and it was a first for us as…
The first time I said “I love you” in a relationship
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Exactly one year ago today, I said “I love you” for the very first time in a relationship. That might sound crazy for a variety of reasons: I am 31 years old, I have been in at least two other longterm relationships (lasting two years and…