I’m not writing here anymore — and I know that’s not nothing, especially for those of you who have shown up for me over the years. You deserve —
Journal
Archive · 2015 — 2024
Journal
Nine years of writing about writing, caregiving, solitude, and the odd Neil Gaiman quote taped above a desk. Kept here on purpose.
Where the writing lives now
I'm not writing here anymore. You deserve to know where I went.
You'll find me on Substack, writing as Chicken Fried Mascara. I show up once a week, sometimes twice, with pieces that take their time — the messy, tender, real stuff, because I want people to read something and think, oh, that's me too.
No one should feel as alone as we sometimes do.
This and That: March 25, 2022
Coming back to the page, especially one so public, after a long time away, means that there is trepidation when it comes to sharing my thoughts. So I’m —
Solitude
This has been sitting in drafts since June 2020. So today felt like the right time to publish it, nearly two years later. I have been thinking a —
Why?
There are days that I sit here and wonder why I write. I’ve asked myself that question more often than not over the past decade. I had hopes —
Being A Writer – Neil Gaiman
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the —
Eudora Welty – On Writing
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life. —
NaNoWriMo
The leaves are starting to fall and there is a crispness in the air. Autumn is slowly arriving and bringing with it NaNoWriMo. On October 5, all of —
Complacency: The Writer
“The moment a writer knows how to achieve a certain effect, the method must be abandoned. Effects repeated become false, mannered. The writer’s style is his doppelgänger, an —