I just don't feel much like writing this summer. (That's The Obvious. Well, unless you thought I was dead or trapped under something heavy. I'm not.) Last month, in a fit of inspiration, I thought I'd recycle some old content, but I don't even want to look at the computer long enough to do that. [...]
Posts under ‘writing’
Getting Ahead of Myself
Image credit: Photo by dvs on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For some time I have been turning an idea for a novel around and around in my head... Oh, I know. Who doesn't want to write a novel, right? Nearly everyone who has luxuriated in the feel of taking pen to paper (or fingers [...]
Happy Blog Birthday to Me!
Image credit: Photo by soapylovedeb on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Happy birthday to me! My blog's turning three! Happy birthday, happy birthday! Happy birthday to me! Three years ago today, several forces serendipitously conspired to get me to pick up a keyboard, dub myself MPJ and write my very first ever blog post. Now, [...]
Haiku for Letters
Old notebook paper: Your pen followed the blue lines tracing out your day. The pages are creased. Pressed by your own hand, sealed, sent hand by hand, to me. And you say please. Please. Write. Send me something you touched. E-mail's so sterile.
Are Bloggers Like Me Crazy?
Image credit: Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I hate that you don't have a blog," said a woman about to undergo heart surgery, as she gazed sincerely up at her boyfriend, "I hate that I don't know what you're thinking." Mark and I burst into raucous laughter and had [...]
Coming Home Again
Image credit: Photo by Elizabeth The Queen Of All Things on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately [...]
What Controversy?
Image credit: Photo by Arty Smokes on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As someone who lives with the reality of sexually compulsive behavior every day, I have to admit, articles like last month's Forbes magazine piece on whether or not sex addiction exists make me roll my eyes. It's always the same thing, "The idea [...]
Replay
Image credit: Photo by Great Beyond on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what [...]
I Could Write a Book
Image credit: Photo by beX out loud on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few weeks ago, as I was poking around the Internet, I saw an ad that caught my eye. "Turn your blog into a book!" it announced. "Hm," I thought, "Come to think of it, I could print my blog and bind [...]
And We’re Back in 3-2-1
Image credit: Photo by juanpol on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Whew! I sat down today, with both kids finally healthy and off at school, with my husband healthy and off at work, with a house covered in a summer of chaos (which I am steadfastly ignoring) and thought, "I'll write about my daughter's huge [...]
