Word of the Year 2019

So it's been a while - no excuses, just life gets in the way and things don't always go to plan. It's been a raging dumpster fire of a year, but here we are, in December, leading up to the Deepest Dark and I can say with only the slightest waver in my voice: I …

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The Stages of a Writing Contest Entry

This past weekend, I participated in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction challenge. I've done their Short Fiction contest for the last 3 years, and this is my 2nd attempt at Flash Fiction (my first try I freaked out so badly that I never even got my entry in). Basically, for Flash Fiction, you are assigned a genre, …

Celiac & the Italian Girl

I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease 4 years ago at this point, entirely by accident (I was having a really bad skin flares and initial concern was Lupus. Yes, Dr. House, I'm aware it's never Lupus til that one time it's actually Lupus). I had blood tests for every autoimmune under the sun, then had …

Confession

I have no idea what I'm doing, in both the general and specific sense. I've wanted to blog for a while because the only thing I've ever wanted to be is a writer and the best way to do that is...(wait for it)...WRITE! So I bought 2 nifty blog planners and started reading about niches …

Is this thing on?

*tap tap tap* Watch this space - writing-type stuff coming soon....