“Inhale to mountain pose; exhale deeply to forward fold. You’ve been here before,” my yoga instructor told the class. I’ve been here a thousand times, I thought. What of it? I generally rush to arrive at anything with a fixed start time. Not just for the journey there, but for the whole getting-ready process: rushContinue reading “#rushLess”
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still DREAMing
I almost unfollowed writer Morgan Jerkins on Instagram. I logged in yesterday and there she was, resplendent and joyous in her photos and a post about how she had been worried that only industry folks cared about her new book—her fourth in seven years. She also wrote that because it took her four years toContinue reading “still DREAMing”
i NEED a CAT
[3-min read] I think my dad might be a gnat. It’s sitting on the upper right corner of my laptop screen as I type this, flicking its gnat wings and scrubbing together its rear gnat legs. It’s also keeping me company. (I don’t have a cat.) A couple times, I’ve tried to smash it andContinue reading “i NEED a CAT”
TrANsitionS
[2-min read] I’ve been editing my brains out lately and apparently, I neglect transitions. The professional editor to whom I paid a chunk of change to help with my memoir advises me again and again, “What about adding a sentence here to create a smoother transition?” Hold on. I can’t skip from topic to topicContinue reading “TrANsitionS”
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