Taking time away from the glitz and facades of twitter was a good idea. It's given me space and helped me realize the root of my problem. Because it's not jealousy, as I originally feared. Jealousy was just the symptom. At the heart, it's really loneliness ( Read more... )

We were away in Tucson for the week and I didn't check the news or really the internet much at all and it was pretty nice. I also wasn't checking my email every five minutes, which I desperately needed a break from ( Read more... )

One of the hard(er) things about having a baby has been finding the time to exercise. Time was, I'd do Crossfit 3+ days a week and go for runs and also go for long hikes on the weekend ( Read more... )

I missed posting this weekend because weekends are time spent hurriedly getting chores done while the baby sleeps and/or hiding the laptop from the baby. I tried to write something several times, but alas ( Read more... )

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Case in point: yesterday I received an email from my editor with several pics of hot, shirtless men attached. I saw the pics before reading the email, so it was a pretty wtf moment. And then I read the email and it all made sense: the art department wanted to use a model as reference for the cover, and they wanted me to tell them which looked most ( Read more... )

Now for a second, slightly longer, catch-up post ( Read more... )

I keep disappearing on here and then I think I'll never come back, but then I also realize that now more than ever I need somewhere where I can scream into the void ( Read more... )

Baby's asleep and I feel like procrastinating on finishing this round of edits, so ( Read more... )

 In a few weeks, I'm going to be turning 31. I usually start thinking about my birthday as far ahead as June, even May sometimes, and trying to mull over/consider my previous year and the year going forward. But this year I didn't even remember my birthday was approaching until late July, and then it was August, and now we're almost halfway through ( Read more... )