I haven’t worked on my memoir manuscript since before I graduated from my MFA program in June. It was my final project, and by the time I was done with it, I didn’t want to look at it again. I just wanted to be done with it. Done. To not think about for awhile. I
In Midnight Mass, episode 5, Father Paul keeps trying to get Riley to recite the Serenity Prayer with him, especially “to accept the things I cannot change” part. It’s an intimate episode. Riley and Father Paul, mostly in conversation with each other, an echo of their previous AA meetings. And in those previous meetings, the
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I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department on repeat. I listen to it in the car as I wait to pick up kids from school or while I run errands. I listen to it as I clean house or fold laundry through my earbuds connected to my phone resting in the back
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I’m currently doing a class on The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron’s classic text about a path to creativity. I’m on week eight of twelve. True to Cameron’s practice, I have been doing Morning Pages pretty faithfully. I attend the once a week Zoom with my classmates, other midlife women. I have tried to do the
I finally got around to watching folklore: the long pond studio sessions, a low-key, intimate concert of Taylor Swift’s folklore album. As is always the case, I am perpetually behind. The concert is from three years ago, recorded in pandemic year one. It’s Swift and her collaborators, Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, not only playing
A few years ago, I applied to an MFA program at the university in the same town where they lived. I set up a meeting to have coffee with a faculty member in the program. He was only a few years older than me. He had a few books out, fiction, but he was pivoting