Do you work well under pressure? That is the first prompt for this month of daily blog posts, and I am stumped immediately. My answer(s)? Often not. In terms of the flight or fight response, I definitely want to flee, or acquiesce … or sleep. A recent Atlantic article discussed the drowsiness that some people feel when …
I am re-blogging today’s post from Aunt Hattie’s Diaries. Have a dandy Christmas, everyone! “A Dandy Christmas Day” 1920-1922: Harriet and Will still lived on a farm outside Spencer, Nebraska, and for Christmas of those years they visited Harriet’s parents in Spencer. In 1920 they traveled in a “double-box wagon.” In 1922, Harriet and Louise …
Fifteen years ago today, in an early morning ice storm on slick, treacherous roads, my father and I began the long, cold, 900 mile drive from Arkansas to South Dakota. The night before, my mother had died of multiple myeloma, after being in a Little Rock hospital for a month, my father at her side, …
A lot has happened since I last posted here: I finished NaNoWriMo (yes, this year, I did it!). Now I need to look over and begin revising the very messy, incomplete draft birthed in November. The term at the college where I teach ended just before Thanksgiving, which means I graded papers and exams and …
I have a confession to make. I’ve been a member of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for nearly seven years, and I haven’t completed the challenge once. Not once. In fact, I don’t think I ever got past a couple of thousand words. Click on the image below for the sad, big picture. That’s not …