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Just a Writer Who Moms
Category: Essays
I missed my flight today. It’s for a trip I have been looking forward to, but somehow I just had my timing all wrong.
The writing process is personalized for every writer. I’ve found it evolves over time as what you need to enter that creative space morphs.
I can’t remember the first time I got recognized in public. In the early years of my career, before print news really embraced the digital…
Deep in writer’s block, I wondered if my career was done. Here’s how rereading my childhood journals changed that.
At a writing camp when I was 15, a professor told me that when I deeply cared about a subject, it reflected in my writing.…
Martha Stewart has built a storied career spanning decades and mediums. As I look back, I realize maybe I just wanted to be Martha Stewart.
In the water, time washes away. Worries are diluted. There’s just my strong, weightless body and laps that I lose count of.
Maybe we’re all a little John Bender. Acting out to see what happens, pushing back against the rules, insulting everyone and no one.
This is the paradox of parenting. I’ve raised them to be secure enough to forge their own paths, while I enter my empty nest phase.