one single mother. one spririted preschooler. oy — what a life.
For most of my life I have been a very disorganized person. Mentally more than in other ways. While I have completed a lot of things I am extremely proud of, more often than not I tend to start projects and put them down. I have been known to abandon ideas, things, causes, other people, myself. I’ve always [...]
Two weeks later, the BlogHer 2008 conference is still so much on my mind. I absolutely adored the conference and learned so much that I am not even close to assimilating it all. But there was one aspect about the conference that bothered me, in hindsight. Perhaps it was a function of the conference being [...]
For the past few days I have been sitting with rejection. I applied for a master nonfiction class at a local creative writing center, and got rejected. By a former professor, no less!
To say that this initially caused me to feel like shit is an understatement.
But then I started to look at it another way: [...]