Category: Writing
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I’ve just been brainstorming for a few days about a new title for this blog. Here are the frontrunners in my mind: South Suburban Salutations Folio From Featureless Fort Collins Scrawls From Suburban Sprawl Filings From Barely Fort Collins Shoutouts From The Sterile South The Exurb Epistolary Missives From Monotony We Have Trees Down Here…
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I run out of patience with my kids when I don’t run. It was years ago when I realized that running had become an essential ingredient in my self-care. I had not run for several days and I had a short fuse with everybody. In the middle of yelling at the kids I was chastising…
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When my inbox notified me of a response from the most popular swimming website in the world, I felt like a big door had just opened. This was my break, or really just the evolution of my freelance writing career, which was gonna take off following this gig. I just knew it. The owner and…
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For a good part of yesterday I beat myself up about not writing. My goal for this January has been to write every weekday that the kids are in school, I even managed a post on one holiday, but the streak died yesterday. I have a very defeatist attitude about not reaching a goal sometimes.…
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“Sometimes fear does not subside and one must choose to do it afraid.” – Elisabeth Elliot, poet. That is how I feel about writing these days, months, and years since I have not put pen to paper and fingers to keys. I have waited for the fear to subside. As you can tell, it has…