I should be writing.
Hey! It’s been a while. Looks like I only wrote one post last month. And it was about our dying dog. Sad! I have been far too busy to update this blog. But I have been writing. And reading. And writing. Always with the writing. You’d think I would have gotten further on my work.…
Well, today was absolutely terrible. We had to euthanize our dog, Molly. Her decline was precipitous: she started retaining fluid, stopped eating, and had trouble breathing. The vet figured it was cancer or heart failure. Expensive tests and treatments were not going to reverse the outcome. It’s been hard to see her suffer these past few…
Yesterday I attended Gene Luen Yang’s opening lecture at the Festival of Faith and Writing. The title was, Is Art Selfish? Great question. Yang presented many anecdotes from his own life, illustrating how he has struggled with this question. He began writing comics in fifth grade, and he would isolate himself from others during lunch periods to…
Today I had to do a bunch of work for my real job: teaching. I created five lesson plans and made videos for them. This week I’ll post them to my teacher website and mass learning will occur. I’m super organized at work this year, because I know that I have exactly NO TIME for…
Today marked the first day of spring break for Fiona and me. We’re not going anywhere, other than the library, but I’m hoping to get tons of writing done in the coming days. I told Fiona she could come to the library with me as long as she was quiet and let me work. She…
