Miss SugarCookie

Category: lessons learned

  • 2021-07-16 This Blog Post is Not About Toads 🐸🐸🐸

    2021-07-16 This Blog Post is Not About Toads 🐸🐸🐸

    Jim and his boys brought back about 12 toads from their adventure at Two Rivers State Park and we released them in the stream behind our house. I feel a little bad for displacing them from their original natural habitat but feel confident they can thrive here too. Lots of cool places to burrow and…

  • 2021-06-12 The Security Camera Saga: A Prequel 🎥

    2021-06-12 The Security Camera Saga: A Prequel 🎥

    A prequel? Hmmmm… This is new.  The briefest definition of “prequel” that I have found is a story or movie containing events that precede those of an existing work. And for sure I began writing this blog post several days ago with the intent to get into the weeds of the analysis I was doing…

  • 2021-05-18 Music as Inspiration and Other Rando Crafty Thoughts…

    2021-05-18 Music as Inspiration and Other Rando Crafty Thoughts…

    I’ve had my new phone for over a week and finally.. FINALLY.. got my music library loaded. So now I’m officially down to using one device daily. 💃💃💃 This morning, instead of picking a playlist, I’m listening to the ultimate shuffle—all the songs that are in my library. Another advantage of my new phone is…

  • 2021-05-17 Back in the Game… ✍🏻💕✍🏻✍🏻

    2021-05-17 Back in the Game… ✍🏻💕✍🏻✍🏻

    Last year I went on a submission spree, submitting my poetry to all levels and types of publishers, from the very brand new organizations to the big-name long shots—print, online, anthology, full manuscript, chapbook, daily, monthly, quarterly journals and reviews. I think I maxed out at 80-something open submissions sometime in November or December. Oh,…

  • 2021-05-11 All of This Is True.. Or Is It? 😉

    2021-05-11 All of This Is True.. Or Is It? 😉

    This morning I was listening to my “Gear Shifter” playlist—the one I curated with songs that are sure to pump me into a cardio machine mood. One of the songs that came up in the shuffle was Hoodie Allen’s “The Real Thing.”  The end of the song is a clip I have to believe is…

  • 2021-02-05 This One Time at Band Camp…

    2021-02-05 This One Time at Band Camp…

    JK.. I never went to band camp.  I did go to cheer camp like 4 times though. Sadly there are zero juicy stories from that. All I have to show for my four years of cheerleading in high school are a bunch of pictures of all my bad hair days, nightmares about perpetually being excluded…

  • 2021-01-12 On Being Smaug 🐉

    2021-01-12 On Being Smaug 🐉

    I opened a book I got for Christmas; I was bound and determined to break out of the habit I’ve gotten myself into where I only read to learn things and can’t seem to read for fun or enjoyment. I remember those days. I remember reading the Hobbit in the bathtub when I was a…

  • 2021-01-04 MFA Graduation Day 💃💃🎉

    2021-01-04 MFA Graduation Day 💃💃🎉

    It’s about time. It’s about endings and beginnings, direction, voice, responsibility, and resolution. Or at least it wants to be. Aspiration, experience, and discovering what life is trying to teach you. I mean me. When i say “you” I mean “me”. When I say “we” I also mean “me”. We’re all self centered. Humans. All…