{^^^This was me the week I started the blog!} The seven year anniversary of this blog happened earlier this week. When I look back on where I was, how I was when I started this blog, I am in awe. This blog began as a travel blog because my dream job then was to be …
TW: discussion of fat-phobia This feels too personal to share. Maybe I shouldn't. But who would I be if my motto wasn't "if it feels too personal to share, I'm on the right track"? Usually I'm eager to share to maybe help someone feel less alone in this weird, messy existence. I suppose this feels …
For months I've heard about Yaa Gyasi's sophomore novel, Transcendent Kingdom, and put it on my to read list which I will share in a subsequent post. I've been a voracious reader in the past few months, so I've actually made a small dent in my to read list (if I could ever choose to …
Since I posted about writing on my Instagram (@maegoeswestblog) and my last post here, I've received a lot of response and questions. I am loving how many writers or potential writers are responding, which got me to thinking (can you tell I'm from the south? 🙂 ) about creating a writer's group. One of my …
Continue reading Anyone Interested in Joining a Writing Group?
I finally reached 50,000 words in my novel that I began writing many months ago. It's taken me a while for various reasons (imposter syndrome, depression, low to no creativity), but hot damn, here we are! 50k translates to about 165 pages in a novel or manuscript. Do I love every part that I have …
This past month has been hard. Since Thanksgiving, I have steadily crawled deeper and deeper under the rock of depression. Therapy's been gut-wrenching. And then my sweet uncle died from Covid in the morning on December 16th alone in the hospital. I wrote about it on my Instagram account: maegoeswestblog if you want to read …
For many months, daily delights have felt like a self indulgent luxury. So many people are dying that bodies are being stored in refrigerated trucks. That grim reality makes me feel like focusing on daily delights is a privilege and incongruous with the current state of affairs. However, when discussing this with a dear friend, …
I haven't written in some time because the sheer trepidation and anxiety the election evoked in me, and many others I know, took up all my brain/emotional space. I found out while Colm and I were at Target for his eye appointment when a coworker texted me crying emojis. I immediately opened my news app …
I stumbled across this little pond when I was delivering something to a volunteer who lives at the top of a mountain. I decided to explore a bit while I was up there, and lo and behold: this scene. Sometimes when I explore, I don't find anything of real interest. But other times, I discover …
A few haikus to knock down spider webs in my head: Pineapple, so sweetGold oddity, a jewelCuriously barbed. Crisp leaves a crunching, Bursts of wind send them twirling, The dance of rebirth. Teeth mangled and sharp, A strange glow comes from within,A jack o' lantern. The moon floats on high, Shinning, illuminatingConducting the tide. Seeds …
