Silence and Second Chances

I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to resume blogging. There’s this fear that everything I can think of to say has already been said, or else, it’s not important enough to be said. This self-imposed silence is a staple of my existence, or at least, it has been. But I’m trying to […]

Riptides

I’m writing now because I haven’t been writing. Again. There will be a post, eventually, about my trip to Paris, but this is not it. This is not the post you are looking for, not unless you’re looking for something more of a confessional and less of an upbeat update. Somewhere, in the whirlwind of […]

“What are you going to do with that?”

Some people pick their jobs based off passion or a need to prove themselves. I picked mine out of fear. I don’t write often about my day job because, well, it’s not something I love. I like the normal working hours. I like getting paid. I like having the summers off. (No, I’m not a […]

Hiatus and Depression

I didn’t plan to take a six-month writing hiatus. It just sort of happened. Fear and self-doubt are lethal to writing, you see, and when you add in depression, it’s a cocktail for disaster. And not just in writing. I started having trouble in August. I spent days before my laptop paralyzed and panicked whenever […]