Miss SugarCookie

Category: lessons learned

  • 2024-02-11 I just thought you should know…

    2024-02-11 I just thought you should know…

    As I drive in my car, north on I-29 from Kansas City to Omaha Nebraska, my home, I’m thinking about how I still have not yet wrapped my head around the fact that it is 2024. Yet, here we are, already it’s February, and already AWP 2024 is in the rearview.  It was my second…

  • 2024-01-07 The Cycles and Spirals of Life

    2024-01-07 The Cycles and Spirals of Life

    I don’t think life ever really slows down. I think going to the MFA residency year after year has taught me that everything is cyclical and nothing ever ends, it just begins anew. Things change and happen a little differently, and there’s certainly evolution, but the life we think is a straight line is actually…

  • 2023-05-15 The Mystery of Finding Treasure

    2023-05-15 The Mystery of Finding Treasure

    We’re halfway through the month of May and for some measure of money and faith, I can offer an update that I’m still on the right track.  Saying “no” agrees with me and I’m getting better at it. I’ve effectively said no to one professional public appearance and also backed out of a personal commitment…

  • 2023-04-05 Passover or Whatever

    2023-04-05 Passover or Whatever

    Passover, flyover, rollover. Over and over, until you die from it. Forget it. Good gravy!  ❌ Content warning… E.T. is mentioned seven times in this post. Eight if you count this warning. I did a thing yesterday and didn’t die from it and my reward was to wake up and spend another day marveling at the mysteries of…

  • 2022-06-18 #1000WordsOfSummer Day 14: Taking Life Less Seriously… ✍🏻

    2022-06-18 #1000WordsOfSummer Day 14: Taking Life Less Seriously… ✍🏻

    …It’s only life after all.  Yesterday was the last day of the writing challenge and I’m not sure how many words I compiled over the last two weeks or how many poems I feel are ready to meet the world, but I do know I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working on writing, contemplating…

  • 2022-06-16 #1000WordsOfSummer Day 13: Changing the Answer ✍🏻

    2022-06-16 #1000WordsOfSummer Day 13: Changing the Answer ✍🏻

    As I near the end of this two-week writing experiment I recognize that much of what I have written (the new stuff anyway) has been blog posts. In the beginning, I had this blog down as an option if I got stuck or didn’t want to work on some other project on my list. But…

  • 2022-06-15 #1000WordsOfSummer Day 12: Just a Girl and Her Notebook ✍🏻

    2022-06-15 #1000WordsOfSummer Day 12: Just a Girl and Her Notebook ✍🏻

    Today’s craft talk newsletter was inspiring. The guest writer waxed on about another writer who wrote with joy for writing and, as it seems, a zest for life itself. Its aim was to remind us that we sometimes have to get away from the notion that writing is grueling work. Let’s be honest, it can…

  • 2022-02-03 I Need to Write This

    When I say I need to write this, what I mean is that I need to try and work through my thoughts and feelings. I need to come to terms with what’s happened, document my perspective for posterity, and try to find some internal resolution and peace. That’s what this is.  Yesterday I had a…