I’m still on Christmas holiday vacation mode. It’s been a week since I got back to work, and the littles ones at school, but my body and mind are in denial. I still stay up late at night even though I’ve had to wake up before 7 a.m. My body doesn’t want to move much. […]
Some of us in my writing group are planning on doing NaNoWriMo starting on Monday. NaNoWriMo. Stands for National Novel Writing Month, which kicks off for the entire month of November since 2000. It started with 21 participants in San Francisco in July of 1999 and got moved to November the following year. In 2020, […]
It’s not hard for me to fall in love with a chicken. My mom used to buy live chickens from the wet market when we lived in the Philippines. They were for cooking, not for pets. But I desperately disagreed and begged her and my aunts to not kill them. It became such an ordeal […]
I can’t remember the last time I’ve experienced rain going on this long in the Bay Area. It’s been a long time., especially with the wind. The rains started last night, and it hasn’t let up more than 24 hours later. This is supposed to continue until tomorrow, possibly the day after. I like it. […]
There are news reports and warnings about a bombogenesis starting tomorrow morning out here in Northern California. The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes bombogenesis as a rapid intensification of a storm caused by a sudden and significant drop in atmospheric pressure. Basically, a shit-ton of rain is going to pummel down on us all day tomorrow. It’s […]
It’s almost the end of the year again. I’m all panicky because there’s so much I still want to get done. I’m not sure I will be able to pull through all these projects I had in mind at the beginning of the year. Fuck. I know I have to get better at tracking my […]
This is the first night in weeks that I’m not hanging around my husband while he watches one episode of Squid Game before going to bed. He finally finished watching the last episode last night. I don’t know how many episodes there are, but I haven’t watched one full one at all. I’ve caught short, […]
Our power went out last night. I had to drive out a few miles away this morning to hang out at a restaurant and use their Wi-Fi to get some work done. That’s the thing about living out in the woods. When our electricity goes out, the internet service goes along with it. The electric […]
I finally figured out why I’ve been hesitant to start a newsletter even though I’ve been writing almost daily since March. I’ve already published over 100 essays in the last eight months, yet I haven’t bothered to think about distributing a newsletter. I didn’t care that it was one of the assignments for the Write […]
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” This quote is by the legendary, best-selling horror author Stephen King. This statement says a lot about Mr. King and how he believes he made it. He has become a great literary success due […]