About Me
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I have wanted to be a successful writer since I was about fourteen. Throughout my teens and 20’s, I was doing pretty well, or at least putting words down on the page and practicing my craft. Then came the disastrous year of 2024. 2024 and 2025 have been challenges for writing time and other things
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Some affiliate links listed here, gotta pay the bills somehow, right? When I first began to write seriously (Ok fine, semi-seriously) at around 14, I had no smart devices or even a computer. I started writing my first novel in a spiral bound notebook with a pencil. I highly caution against that as I have
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Here I am a day late. (Darn work schedules!) It’s April which means it’s the start of a new quarter. Out with Quarter One and in with the new! Here’s a reminder of what I said I wanted to do in the first quarter of 2025: Overall Publish more consistently online and build online presence.
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Is it finally gone? Did we make it through that awful year? Ok, good. The me at the start of 2024 and the me now are two vastly different people. In 2024, before the chaos hit, I had a lot of goals I wanted to reach and projects I wanted to get done. A quick
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This year has been the most difficult year I can remember. Emotionally, I’m drained. Physically, I’m tired. Mentally, I’m frazzled. But I am on the mend. All of 2024 has been one shit show after the other, starting 6 days into the new year! Tragedy after tragedy, death after death, loss after loss. But through
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I cannot believe another year of writing has come and gone! This year has definitely had its ups and downs, but I’m happy I’ve been able to do what I love in writing and creating. December Results One Short Story As much as I wanted to write a short story this month, writing was a
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Last Saturday, it was Hazel’s time to go. After 14 years, she succumbed to Feline Mediastinal Lymphoma. Dear Angels who gained a cat in Heaven, Her name is Hazel and she’s the best cat you’ll ever have. She responds to many nicknames (Beavis, Floofy, and Woofy), but I’m sure you’ll make some of your own.
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When I think about where I was two years ago (and one day), I think about how different my life was. I think about how I was on a completely different path, one where I put another’s needs before my own. I think about where I would be now if I had stayed on that
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Adulthood is where dreams go to die. Where the light of desires and wishes is snuffed out by the heavy demands of adulthood. Silently, they die, screams unheard between bills to pay and the green desire of more more more! Adulthood is where dreams go to die. Snuffed out in youth by the distractions of
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When I was more active and doing things in certain communities, I went to a ramen and sushi restaurant with a bunch of colleagues. One gentleman opened the menu, closed it, and ordered Shrimp Tempura. I ordered curry, because I was afraid of making a mess and splashing everyone around me if I ate ramen.
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Here we are again at the start of a new year and a new decade. It seems like just yesterday that it was 2019 (yes, I did make that joke). Here’s some of the cool stuff I did and created in 2019 and the statistics to go along with it, because I enjoy numbers. In
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Week Two is over and gone. Thank goodness! Because it struck with a vengeance. Week Two is traditionally when the act of writing gets difficult and writers reach walls or struggle through their drafts. I am no exception to that, but with a few more issues during the week. Day Eight: 2,525 (I broke a
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Failure is something that can happen to any of us at any time. Failure is something that we all try to actively avoid, failing, being a failure, is something that we don’t ever really want to admit. Failure sucks, but it’s a part of life. Lately, I’ve felt like a failure in several aspects. I’ve
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When I open my diary from five years ago, it’s hard to believe that I lived that life and that that person was me. Five years ago, I thought I was happy, I thought I was whole, but I laugh now at how wrong I was. I laugh at how much growing I still had
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My charger is white and new. Getting a new phone for the first time in over two years, it is unlike any other charger I’ve ever had. At first, I was apprehensive, new technology, new charger, new apps and a new OS, but slowly, I realized change was inevitable. Change is inevitable, not just in
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There are certain things that carry over from the previous days and years. It’s been five years since nursing school started, five years since I got out of that terrible relationship, five years since every relationship I thought I had changed. There are so many things I’m still holding onto that I shouldn’t. After five
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I was fresh out of the package, and you burned me with your influence. Fed me your lines and your rhymes, All in perfect time and cadence. You marked me with your ways, and your faults, so that whenever I do anything, I am reminded of you. Your rhymes and your cadences, all getting stuck
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A couple of months ago, I made a blog post called “Not Every Girl is a Pearl”. In that post, I talked about all the changes I was making and the hope I had for the future. Here is what has changed since then. I’m still single, and learning to love it. My hair is
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Today is World Judo Day and the theme this year is Courage. This is very important to me, since I feel I have been lacking courage recently. For the past few weeks, I’ve just been floating through life. Work, home, judo, school, repeat ad infinitum. I’ve recently decided that I’m not going to do that
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Maybe you’re right. Maybe I let go too soon, Tapped out when I should have stayed in, Let things go when they got too tough, Gave up, Gave in. Maybe I am a coward, For leaving, For tapping out, For wanting to protect myself, For wanting to chase my own happiness, Instead of feeling like