On a rough week.
This week was an emotional rollercoaster of sorts, to be sure. From the beginning, I knew that it would be exhausting because of parent/teacher conferences and I did feel especially drained, and I...
View ArticleOn changing names.
I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately. I wonder if I’ve been struck with that “Summertime Sadness.” It is now August, and my dreams have included school more and more, so maybe it is simply anxiety...
View ArticleOn trying not to be ungrateful and having perspective.
“He asked me, ‘How do you keep fighting?’ And the truth is I don’t know I think it’s funny that he asked me ‘Cause I don’t feel like a fighter lately I am too unhappy … You’d think I’d get perspective...
View ArticleOn talking to the dead.
Friday, April 10, 2015 marked 90 years since the publication of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the novel that essentially changed my life by confirming the kind of woman – the kind of human...
View ArticleOn treating a blog like a confessional, for better or worse.
Good news: A literary agency requested my full manuscript about a week ago. Bad News: I haven’t written anything in a while, other than melodramatic diary entries that are more embarrassing and...
View ArticleOn objections.
“Love is a book that never closes.” I need to stop drinking spoiled milk. A respected coworker of mine read the manuscript for Moody Blue and told me she enjoyed it, believed it had merit and promise....
View ArticleOn battling bullshit.
It’s the end of another year. We’re all preparing for the onslaught of “new year, new you” messages and postings, and I know the majority think such verbiage is cliched bullshit. I was such a believer...
View ArticleOn going West and coming home.
It has been quite some time since I last updated. I went to a beautiful wedding and then ventured way out West to Colorado with my little brother for about ten days. I have been home, in New Jersey,...
View ArticleOn the persistence of the Universe
Some situations in life are unavoidably awkward. Indeed, some moments are socially awkward by definition. For women, I believe this includes any and all visits to beauty salons. Just the other day, I...
View ArticleOn being random, dismantling and finally updating.
It’s been over two months since the last time I posted, and there’s nothing I want more than to tell you I’ve been doing wonderfully interesting things, that I’ve been really and truly living. But that...
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