Miss SugarCookie

Category: writing

2022-12-03 New Leaf #2 🍂

Leaf number 2: Personal Poetic Pursuits 🍂 I put a great deal of time and mental energy into TGLR. My little literary passion project that’s neither little nor just mine. Our team now has over 20 people and the whole organization, process, and published journal rely on me to hold up my end of the…

December 3, 2022
2022-11-05 What is life…

…but a series of explorations and experiments. Some turn out great and some don’t. Each, in a way, informs the next. Maybe you do the same experiment over and over, changing a few of the variables each time to see how it alters the outcome. You might even do the same thing in the exact…

November 8, 2022
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2022-11-01 Latest and Greatest Austin Adventure Wrap-Up

It’s 10:34 on a Monday night… but not any Monday night. It’s Halloween Night and just also happens to be my last night in Austin. I’ve been here longer than I usually stay. Normally, I would leave on Sunday or Monday at the latest, but I wanted to ride out the holiday down here and…

November 1, 2022
2022-10-28 One Day By Day

On October 21st, 2010.. twelve years ago I wrote my first post on my first blog. No surprise, it was a poem. It was titled Day By Day and it was about the act of starting each day by reflecting on the day before, and then “jumping in” again from there. It was a giant…

October 29, 2022
2022-10-27 The One About Blogging and Drama Over THIS Blog

So meta, I know. And also long…. I’m often slow to process things that happen in my life. I’m typically very methodical and intentional with my words and I care how what I say affects people and what the perception is about who I am. I’ve tried to say “efff that” to worrying about what…

October 27, 2022
2022-09-15 Sometimes When It Rains, It Pours

Sometimes it’s all dried up, and there’s nothing to say. And sometimes, even though my creative writing is non-existent, the other words are just begging to come out. I guess you could call this post a continuation of the one I finished yesterday. When I was done writing, I believed I had said all I…

September 15, 2022
2022-09-14 The Daily Pep and Thoughts on Quitting

The Daily What? The Daily Pep. One of three podcasts I’ve recently taken to listening to on a regular basis. This holy trinity of podcasts includes “Chasing Life” which comes out once a week and is 10-60 minutes on a random topic like dreaming, playing in adulthood as you did as a child, and social…

September 14, 2022