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 love coffee. This blog kinda runs on coffee. However. Recently, I’ve been really stressed and looking at ways to help my overall anxiety. Would cutting out coffee help my insomnia, too? My husband sleeps so well, I was getting jealous. And could I do more during the day with coffee, or without it? Is coffee culture just a social thing? I’m not a quitter, but when I do, it’s cold turkey. (I’m also not a doctor, maybe don’t try…
Two things about me: Sometimes, I have so much to say, I don’t know where to start or what to write. I’m really bad at blog post introduction paragraphs. Working on it. And since there’s so much going on, I’m doing a currently-going-on list, which does contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure here. Hi. Biggest thing this month, I went cold turkey off coffee. Yes, me. Thing was, last Monday, I came off yet another sleepless night. And I wanted…
When Isla started nursery school, I stuck around for a while on her first day. She held my hand for a beat longer than usual, looked at me, and then went to play. From my wheelchair in the corner, I watched her play and tried not to mess with her moment. That day, she did things that made sense to people who were three. Playing alone together with other kids. After a while, a boy not unkindly asks my daughter,…
