Yesterday I kept thinking about social media and my love/hate relationship with it. And then last night I got sucked in and wasted what little time I had left in the day. It was the comments. You know, they’re like potato chips — you can’t read just one! Yesterday […]
Diary & Random Thoughts
What’s on My Mind
I’m in week five of my current class — almost half way through it. This one is rough, but I’ve been trying to also make time for family and friends because that’s what’s most important in life. I don’t want the summer to pass by and to have not done […]
Reading to Learn How to Write
I haven’t done much writing lately. In my defense, I have been doing a lot of reading and studying. I just finished The Silent Patient and The Family Upstairs — both excellent books. The Silent Patient masterfully weaves the unexpected into the ending and The Family Upstairs has lots of […]
No writer ever became a writer by not writing.
It’s been over a week since I’ve written anything! Not good. I had an unexpected day off from work yesterday. I tried to use it to get ahead on homework, but as always, everything takes longer than I anticipate. I got this week’s reading and quiz done. I have a […]
Head Above Water
I just started week two of class number three and oh my! It’s a lot! I am going to try to keep up my morning writing routine, but keeping up with this class plus everything else life has to throw at me is going to be tough. I’ll post when […]
Distractions
Yesterday I probably had the worst day at work that I’ve had in a very long time. At first I thought I need to react; I need to take care of this. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that this is just a distraction from […]