I never stopped being a working mom when I stopped being a working mom. I just changed the job and the location. (Moms don’t really ever stop working, in case you didn’t know that. Even the ones who don’t get paid in money.) I didn’t intend to become a writer when I quit teaching. I didn’t…
i love writing
Finding Walden
“I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear” –Henry David Thoreau…
This is just to say
This is just to say I cannot release the words that are trapped in my head and which you were probably eager to read Forgive me I am too tired must sleep right now (The above is my spin on the William Carlos Williams poem “This is just to say” which can be found below….
Checkpoint
The checkpoint of NaBloPoMo is here. The halfway point. 15 days down of 30 days of blogging. It occurred to me that I never 1) said what NaBloPoMo actually IS or 2) said why I’m doing it. So I guess better late than never. NaBloPoMo is a spin-off from NaNoWriMo. The latter is “National Novel…
What if
I feel like I need to continue my thoughts from yesterday’s post in part because I think maybe I wasn’t clear and also because I can’t get this nagging feeling out of my head and the only way I know to do that is to come here and word vom a little and see how…