Miss SugarCookie

Category: writing

  • 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…

  • 2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness

    2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness

    Every time I drive west across Nebraska on I-80 I’m full of hope and excitement about what’s to come. If I’m driving west on that long stretch of boring interstate I’m driving away from home and toward something fun and different, people I love and mountains I marvel. I know that soon I will be…

  • 2020-04-14 A Few Words Can Make All the Difference

    2020-04-14 A Few Words Can Make All the Difference

    It’s amazing how one conversation can make all the difference. The impact a few words can have in changing your mood, your perspective, and your direction is incredible. Yesterday did not go as planned (surprise, surprise), yet one conversation I had with a friend of mine, Miss Michelle, was all it took for me to…

  • 2020-04-13 Accepting a New Way

    2020-04-13 Accepting a New Way

    For the first time ever I got a sleep score above 90. According to my FitBit the score for my sleep last night was 91 which equates to excellent. Wowza! Last night I didn’t have much to think about in the way of what “has” to get done this week. My work hours have been…

  • 2020-04-12 Hoppy Sunday Status 💜🐰🌷

    2020-04-12 Hoppy Sunday Status 💜🐰🌷

    It’s Easter. I rarely went to church as a kid (as in almost never) and so for me the holiday is all about bunnies, and baskets, and egg hunts. I actually collected stuffed bunnies when I was a kid and so each Easter, another member was added to my little family. I never owned a…

  • 2020-04-09 Naturally Nervous

    2020-04-09 Naturally Nervous

    It doesn’t matter if I’ve known you my whole life or if we’ve just met. I’ll be nervous thinking about getting together. I’ll spend too much time thinking about it, worrying, wondering how it will go. It doesn’t matter if I’ve conducted a hundred meetings, each next one is a challenge. I’m naturally nervous. We…