It is 2 p.m. and it is time to go for a run. I don’t care that it is pouring outside. It seems appropriate to leap into puddles today; then again, I never really outgrew puddle jumping. I don’t stop thinking the entire time I get dressed. Even as I pull on running tights and a blue tech t-shirt and yank my long, dirty blond hair back into a pony tail, I ruminate over the state of my soul and [...]
I’m at a crossroads in my life. I’m not breaking down at all; instead, I am breaking through to the next stage of healing. I’ve talked with you about a lot of serious things lately: depression; self-hurting; grieving the loss of my birth family; addiction; a new bipolar diagnosis; setting boundaries with toxic friends; helping my child who struggles with ADHD; sexual, physical and emotional abuse and through it all, you have listened and been right here with me, and [...]
Novel Overview The other day, my writing partner Renee-Schuls-Jacobsen Lessons from Teachers and Twits and I tried to summarize my novel in a paragraph, and I’m here to tell you it isn’t easy to step back and pinpoint a book in one sentence. And to be frank, I have been a little nervous about revealing the plot because it is, like so much of what I write, a bit raw. I’m afraid that prospective readers will hear that and [...]