Miss SugarCookie

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This stream of consciousness is intended to be an unfiltered account of my journey to fight my way to a healthier, happier life. One day at a time, one step at a time, one organically-grown-emotionally-raw blog post at a time…

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2022-07-10 Terrible Tirade Tuesday…

A few days ago I posted about being overwhelmed with stuff going on. I feel literally paralyzed by not being able to process that list of stuff and the fact that so much is out of my control.. it’s making me furious. If I can move just one thing out of my mind, I know…
2022-05-08 A Million Little Things…

Lately I’ve been wasting time watching more shows than I normally do. When I say “normally” I mean that normally I don’t watch shows at all unless Jim and I are sitting down for a chill hour of TV in the evening. And when I say “lately” I suppose I mean for the past nine…
2022-04-26 Being the Boss of Me…

When I used to have a career, I always subscribed to this notion when approaching management with an issue: Don’t show up empty handed. Show up with potential solutions or at the very least something helpful or positive to counterbalance any bad news or problems. Now that I’ve dumped my career, I still think this…
2022-04-19 Two-fer Tuesday…

Recently I had the opportunity to spend a few days with Kate Gale. I wrote about this, of course, and you can read that here. Part of that experience was watching her reading in Lincoln and then participating in another reading and hearing her read the same poems in Omaha. She’s touring to promote her…
2022-04-13 Who Cares?

Today I’m raging about my missing iris plants and asking myself who the fuck in my life will actually care about how I feel about this or anything else. Really. I’m upset that I haven’t written anything decent in months and who cares. I’m angry that I’m the only one in my household that pays…
2022-03-23 One Blog Post to Rule Them All…

Spoiler alert: This will be my last post for the foreseeable future. And it is a long one. A lot has happened in my life these past 5 years and much of it has been captured in the virtual pages of this space. I created this blog in 2017 when I was literally on the…
2022-03-18 Sometimes the Wandering Leads to An Idea

Nothing has changed between yesterday and today yet here I am again, resisting the urge to start watching a new show; resisting the urge to go back to bed. I’m still thinking about the same things. About my on-again-off-again submission pushes (currently off), all my other goals, and, of course, questioning if I’m on the…
2022-03-17 Something Only Slightly More than Nothing 🍀🍀🍀

I am so low energy today. Rough night and you know, lately I’ve been pushing hard physically and am tired from that too. I’ve also been trying to think about what might be a worthy blog post and just don’t have it. I know, I know. When has that ever stopped me before??! 🙃 What’s…
2022-03-13 So Much Next Level Going On

It’s been another hot minute, you know I know. But I’ve been attending to other duties as assigned and this week it was all about hanging out with the founder and managing editor of Red Hen Press and the LA Review. It was/is a big deal and personally a fantastic experience. What an opportunity to…
2022-03-06 Actively Avoiding Everything

Yesterday I was able to finish review/copy edits of the galley copy of my chapbook. For the second to last time, presumably. Ball is in the publisher’s court again. Glad to have that off my mind so I can ignore it at least for a little while. Today my goal is to take a shower…
2022-03-05 Questions without Answers: Part 2

Yesterday I was winding my way around the question about why I can’t seem to enjoy life more. Why I put so much pressure on myself for stuff and why I continue to be down about the state of things. But therein lies the problem. The questions are themselves nebulous. It’s about mood and stress…
2022-03-04 Questions without Answers

First things first.. in the exactly one week I’ll be doing my first (and possibly last) ever in-person public reading AND it’s crazy to have been invited by THE KATE GALE, founder and editor of the Los Angeles Review and Red Hen press. It’s the launch/tour for her latest book, The Loneliest Girl, and her…