Miss SugarCookie

Category: lessons learned

  • 2020-05-28 Hide and Seek

    2020-05-28 Hide and Seek

    I start walking. I start writing. That’s my way. Lately I’ve felt like it’s all just the same shit on a different day. I’m inches away from getting my MFA in Poetry and I haven’t written anything worthy of a poem in months. A few times when I took a class with the “Todfather”, I…

  • 2020-05-25 The Sign on the Door Says “Beware of Dragons”…

    2020-05-25 The Sign on the Door Says “Beware of Dragons”…

    … but I open it anyway. I’m not even sure where to start today. Should I begin with the 5am wake up and subsequent spin-brain keeping me from going back to sleep? Perhaps I should start by reflecting on that conversation I had yesterday with my Texas Bestie where she said her new motto was…

  • 2020-04-21 Longest Day EVER!

    2020-04-21 Longest Day EVER!

    There I go being overly dramatic again. If you ask me how I feel about my dramatic tendencies, my answer will depend on my mood. Today I’m feeling plucky so I’ll just say, it’s part of my charm. It was a long day though. And quite an atypical one compared to most of the SugarCookie…

  • 2020-04-18 Wavelengths and Pages and Need for Connection

    2020-04-18 Wavelengths and Pages and Need for Connection

    Exactly one week from today is the deadline for getting my MFA thesis completed and in the proper format with all the required sections and content. Should be a snap cuz most of it has been done for weeks. I’ve just been fiddling with some of the poems and negotiating with my mentor about a…

  • 2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry

    2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry

    To be fair, I’m really referring to just the one poem I’ve reworked a hundred different ways and each time I try to sneak it into my manuscript, my mentor says “nope”. To be fair, he’s only seen two versions of it and not the fifteen I wrote before or the 30 I thought about…

  • 2020-04-05 Rolling Eyes and Shrugging 🙄 🤷‍♀️ 😢

    What is a girl to do. Yesterday I was all “everything’s going my way again”, you know and am I so fragile that just like that I’m down again? It’s Sunday and I’m alone and grumpy. I’ve just finished going through the thesis preface feedback returned from my mentor a few days ago, for the…

  • 2020-03-22 Super-Sized Sunday Status

    2020-03-22 Super-Sized Sunday Status

    It’s Sunday again and I really need to get some steps to boost my stats and get my heart going. Plus, I’ve got a lot to say today so this could get long. Imma start with school. Yesterday I had a two hour phone conversation with my assigned mentor for the semester and though it…

  • 2020-02-29 Cheers to Leap-Day and the Double-Dot ..

    2020-02-29 Cheers to Leap-Day and the Double-Dot ..

    Today feels like a bonus day. Yesterday I wrote about some goals I have. Those are more general in nature and anyone who knows me knows that I also like to have little weekly and mid-tier monthly goals too. I have a white board that lives behind the door of my office that has a…