Miss SugarCookie

Category: writing

  • 2022-02-13 The One About Memory and Time. And Rocks… 🪨

    2022-02-13 The One About Memory and Time. And Rocks… 🪨

    I think about time quite a bit, and about memory too. I think about an hourglass glued to the table; the lyric of a song stuck in my mind for a lifetime. I can’t escape the curve of it, the gravity, the sensation of something you can’t really hold on to that’s slipping away. I’ve…

  • 2022-02-06 SMA Road Trip Day 0 Continued: The St. Louis Arch

    2022-02-06 SMA Road Trip Day 0 Continued: The St. Louis Arch

    Yesterday we had to push real hard to make our 4:30 ticket time at the Saint Louis arch. We planned to leave home around 9 but became delayed, as is often the case, with all the last minute stuff at the house.  I was supremely disappointed as we got on the road and was told…

  • 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…

  • 2022-01-20 Waiting.. and More Waiting + Thinking About Death

    2022-01-20 Waiting.. and More Waiting + Thinking About Death

    A week ago my uncle was taken by ambulance to a hospital in CB. Same day he was transferred to a hospital in Omaha and prepped for surgery for a subdural hematoma—bleeding around his brain.  Now it’s a week later and he’s awake but has been unresponsive. Still intubated, as I understand it and my…

  • 2022-01-17 Much Ado About a Monday Status Update… ✅✅❌

    2022-01-17 Much Ado About a Monday Status Update… ✅✅❌

    We’re now over half way through the month of January so it’s about time I check myself before I wreck myself.  In other words.. how am I doing on the New Years resolution front?  To be fair I think I only officially declared my set of goals a little over a week ago so anything…

  • 2022-01-14 Giving My Brain a Creative Jump-Start ✍🏻

    2022-01-14 Giving My Brain a Creative Jump-Start ✍🏻

    I’m back at the Lied Lodge in Nebraska city today. I was invited by an MFA friend who is also struggling to get back into writing. The regular routine of life often doesn’t leave enough space for flexing that creative muscle. I know I was just here a couple of weeks ago but that was…

  • 2022-01-04 On Tuesday’s I Take Out the Trash

    2022-01-04 On Tuesday’s I Take Out the Trash

    I’d love to say I do it for alliteration’s sake because something deep in me is enchanted by the sounds of words that just fit together in my mouth in a pleasing and natural way. But I take out the trash on Tuesday because Wednesday is the day the Man comes to haul it away. …

  • 2022-01-03 It Can Be Whatever You Want…

    2022-01-03 It Can Be Whatever You Want…

    I have collected and carry with me a number of sayings. Mantras, if you will that I often turn to in times when I’m in need of grounding, or a reminder about how to live life properly. Now is one of those times and the phrase today is “It can be whatever you want. You…