I revise all afternoon, into the night, until I’m reading the final chapters out loud and running a spell check. I’ll reread the manuscript this […]
Christmas Haiku
We are home sweet home Whirlwind Christmas, there and back Now: wine, cats, movie Merry Christmas, Natalie
Christmas Eve
A whirlwind of plan changes as we drive south today and my Mom and I checked into a last-minute hotel in Madison a little bit […]
Clubhouse of the Brave
Christmas Eve Eve. I listen to the latest We Can Do Hard Things podcast. I cry. She talks about the ache in our hearts. She […]
The Nets We Weaves
It’s about the long arcsThe curves over months, yearsI do not tell my story in day to dayIn week to weekI am always in a […]
Writing Update: 71%
Disappointing progress this week. But travel. And Spider-Man. It was a Herculean effort to calm my brain down enough to write about my running babies […]
An Angry Sleeping Haiku
Brain, hey, yeah, you, brain –Let me fucking sleep at night– Love, a tired Me With Love, Natalie
The Weekly Gratitude List
I’m not going to lie, I am having a hard time thinking of something to write about that’s not Spider-Man. No spoilers, of course. So […]
Home
I’m home after a three-day jaunt around southern Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee). It’s nice to switch things up, see friends and family briefly, and see […]
The Extraordinaries
Look, so I read this book and it is now one of my favorites, and god bless my mom for telling me about TJ Klune […]