A Very Toothsome Update
Guess who had an emergency tooth extraction?
Guess who had an emergency tooth extraction?
This post contains miscarriage mention and other medical issues. It still all needed to be said.
I’ve never been a consistent writer - until this year, when I finally figured out how to write daily. For good.
What's that? Where have I been? Well...
What's this? NEW STUFF? You bet your buttons.
I prided myself that I was not Like That - and I was very wrong.
This particular period of care-taking was the most brutal thing I've ever been through in my life.
It seems that whenever I disappear, something truly horrible is going on.
I'm doing a life-change in my ongoing battle with chronic pain. And it's working.
Writing after a dry period is really hard, but there's no secret to getting back into it. There are only a few simple steps.
We write our stories, and we do the best we can. For many of us, that means we write from perspective born of backgrounds we didn't control, educations we weren't aware were cheap, and information we didn't know was dated.
I have been given an AMAZING gift and I'm out of my mind with joy.
Flames dance thanks to exothermic reactions, a process that releases energy to its surroundings in the form of heat and light. So did she.
Not this time, life. You don't get to win this round.
Things are dark. Very dark. It's time to ask yourself an important question: why keep going?
Pull up your trousers and tie your shoes. This year is going to be a fight.
I didn't grow up seeing strong women represented - and neither did the rest of my generation. There was a cost.
This is it. We are MOVING. I have rarely been so excited.