Miss SugarCookie

2021-10-12 Stopping to Smell the Hibiscus 🌺

I often spend too much time worrying about not being productive enough. Always pushing myself into the next thing, and the next and next. Never stopping to savor the success of what I did yesterday or last week or last year. In 2020 I received my MFA in Writing from the University of Nebraska and…

October 12, 2021
2021-10-09 Where to Begin… ✍🏻

I forget what day it is. I wonder why I’m still here. I fail to find what I’m looking for. Some days I get upset thinking about how many years I wasted working for the man, living that picket fence life, and not wanting anything more than I had. Other days I second guess that…

October 9, 2021
2021-10-02 A Fresh Start for Fall 🍁

A new month has been born and with it we enjoy the most ironic season of all; when juxtaposition reigns supreme. The weather gets cooler yet we become cozy and warm as we gather around fires, sip hot drinks, and swap our summer wardrobes with sweaters, boots, and hats. It’s the season where the nights…

October 2, 2021
2021-09-29 An Epic Rant from a Terrible Daughter…

You know that saying?.. How does it go?.. “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” It’s something like that. Well… fuck that saying. There is absolutely nothing good I have to say about this situation with my mother but I’m done being the good daughter. At least here in…

September 29, 2021
2021-09-27 Today is the Intersection Where the Past Meets the Future 🔥

The end of the month is quickly approaching and what have I to show for my time? Plenty. Book materials to my publisher for my first book. ✅ Bike for my daughter for campus. ✅ Mom’s big surgery and getting on the road to recovery. ✅ Three new editors secured for the GLR. ✅✅✅ Proposals…

September 27, 2021
2021-09-25 Happy FIVE-OHHH Bro! 🎉🚀🌕

Today I’m walking to try and rid myself of a headache that was probably induced by too much to drink at dinner last night. Some cocktail with a clever name I can’t recall. I suppose if it was really clever I’d remember it. 🤷‍♀️ After two of those I switched to amaretto sours which have…

September 25, 2021
2021-09-24 Over it.. Already

It’s day 5 of going to the hospital and I’m already over it. I hate that it feels obligatory and routine. I hate that it seems to cut my day in half. I don’t use the word hate a lot but in this case it fits. What’s a girl to do? To balance things out…

September 24, 2021
2021-09-22 Take Over, the Breaks Over

The Break’s Over? What break? The one where I don’t have to drive to the hospital every damn day, check in at the front desk to get my Covid clearance sticker, and sit at my mom’s bedside. We checked into the hospital yesterday afternoon and she went into surgery this morning. I was there when…

September 22, 2021