On March 5 of 2020, I sat in my therapist’s office thanking him for all the work we’d done together. I told him something like, “I think I have the tools I’ll need to be okay from here on.” And then I moved cross-country to Minneapolis from Albuquerque during Covid-19 lockdown. I wasn’t okay, ofContinue reading “HealIng”
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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”
oVer-eFFOrTing
[3-min read] You’ve heard of this efforting business? I recently heard the term in an exercise class. “Be careful that you’re not over-efforting,” the instructor advised and maybe I was projecting since there were about twelve other students, but I swear there were lasers beaming from her eyes through the Zoom screen and onto me.Continue reading “oVer-eFFOrTing”
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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