I’m sitting here at my sliver of kitchen table surrounded by books and drawings and wilted flowers. More on my writing environment is over here. I know I haven’t written in a week. Yesterday it took 8 hours to upload my first Q and A video. The Gin & Lemonade trailer is here: Before I edited the trailer I was Laura from German Lemonade. Hi. (If real captions don’t appear automatically, hit cc on bottom right of screen.) After the…
I take a lot of notes throughout the day, for stuff I want to write later. If you’ve seen me tapping on my phone, I’m not being rude. I’m writing. My family gets that about me. It’s fine. Sometimes, I see something that triggers a memory, and I gotta connect the two time-zones before the thrill is gone. That’s what happened on a recent family road trip. My kid saw a toy she said was for me, and I was…
You guys, time is weird. I miss a lot of major news stories. They happen overnight, and I’m sleeping. Or trying to. This morning in the midst of getting Isla ready for school, I’m scrolling through Facebook. I see the same story a few times, with different commentaries. I told you time is weird. A teacher has gone viral for carrying a wheelchair-using student on his back during a field trip. Oh, boy. We’ve got the inspiration porn out there…
A few years before I met my husband, I wrote A LIST. On it, I noted all of the things I was looking for in a partner, namely my forever partner. I folded up the three pages, put them at the back of my journal. Planned to offer the list to the Moon, and see what happened. Real talk, I ended up offering the list to my washing machine first, transferred from my journal to a sweater with pockets. The…
On a recent road trip with my family, I saw something that made me cry happy tears. It brought back an unhappy but somehow empowering memory. It kind of felt like a full circle moment. I was there with my husband and my child remembering the kid that I was, and making a wish for the kids of today. I shared the photo, the memory, and my wish on the internet. It wasn’t a blog post. I didn’t do keyword…
