This past weekend, I attended the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. It’s one of the bigger writing conferences here in the state of Colorado, and I look forward to it every year. This year it was all online, and I really thought I’d be fine with that. After all, I go to writers conferences mainly to […]
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The Network of Good
I’m a tinkerer. It’s my superpower. I get obsessed with puzzles and technical problems and I tinker until the pieces connect. I am always on the lookout for threads, connections, common themes — everywhere, with everything. I think in networks. Which is why I love Roam’s graph database. I’ve been using it for a couple […]
Balance and Bystanders
Lately I’ve been thinking — a lot — about how the world works. What I keep coming back to is this idea of balance. Not in the “even / level” sense of balance — but in the “ebb and flow / to and fro / rise and fall” sense. In the sense of fluctuating between […]
Last Words
I yelled at my daughter in the school drop-off lane this morning. I’m not proud of that. School drop-off and pick-up are particular forms of torture for parents and children alike. With additional rules and processes in place to prevent the spread of COVID, it’s not just torture — it can be hell. I pulled […]
The P Word: A Rant
This week is trying to eat me alive. I feel like I’ve been putting out fires for clients and scrambling to get my team members what they need to do their jobs since I got out of bed Monday morning — but I didn’t really get out of bed, because I had a bug Sunday night through […]
Shifting Gears Without Losing Momentum
I’ve been really struggling with the paranormal novel I’ve been working on (working title Thorns of Summer). I’ve been writing for hours after the kids go to bed, and barely squeezing out 250 words. It has been painful. I knew where the story was going, but I couldn’t quite get the characters there — and […]
