

Five Minute Free Write: Desire vs. Self-Deception
I don't like this topic. It’s boring. My ponytail is weighing on my weave and giving me follicle pain disorder. Either the world got...
Aug 12, 2020


Tapping
I went to a great online writing class led by Fenton Johnson. (I’m pretty sure he is the same Fenton who Pam Houston named her dog after...
Jun 30, 2020


Write to this prompt: Five minutes about your lives in the pandemic.
I'm now zooming with my writing group instead of meeting in person and it's so not the same. On the bright side, no COVID. I’m pretty...
Apr 30, 2020


Meet Scooby!
I am super bummed out because we are in a pandemic and stuck at home for a million days and everything is messy but I’m too exhausted to...
Mar 31, 2020


Tiny Tim
For real, I have a headache. I’m pretty sure it’s COVID. Also, why is my bedroom so whack? One of our blinds fell down weeks ago and we...
Mar 21, 2020


The Pandemic Begins
It’s my first pandemic and I’m wasting it being miserable. I can’t help thinking about what my friend Stacey wrote in our writing group...
Mar 20, 2020


Biofeedback
I met this professor at a career fair for work who does biofeedback and it’s really weird and interesting. And it's all about my favorite...
Feb 21, 2020


January
I am, for real, going to take down our Christmas tree today. If you take down your tree in January, it still counts as normal....
Jan 15, 2020


Cavity Check
Speaking of old, ugly things, I had an orthodontist evaluation to see what it would take to fix my overbite. My kids told me that getting...
May 31, 2019


Getting Started
My friend Christy sucks. She always makes us write and eat salad. She’s like the Suzanne Sommers of our Three's Company writing group....
Apr 30, 2019




























