My Cardboard Balcony

Busy but exciting week! This upcoming Tuesday, I will be officially teaching a lesson plan for the first time at my student teaching site. I have a brand new student at my teaching job on Saturdays. I've been exhausted, stressed to high heaven, and sometimes pushed to low moods, but it is all worth it. I know it is. My fiancée and I both have a lot on our plate. And it's not just planning the wedding, obviously. We both have a lot to do workwise. We have a lot of creative goals that we feel like either we're not reaching or we just have to keep putting off (or both). We sometimes feel like we can't get a second to just relax and breathe without anxiety. And to top it off, our rent's being hiked on us. But as my dear Arden has said to me, "We can do this. I know we can." And I agree. The fact that I am still updating this blog daily is a reminder of how much I can do writing-wise despite my schedule and my obligations to my two jobs and to my teaching c...

Bluffing by Belinda Roddie She's armed with two guns, but the chambers are empty.

You cradled me in your arms that night, whispered in my infantile ear that once you had the money, you would steal me away in the old family minivan, drive all the way to the coast, and resettle in a beach house where the tide barely licked the sandy toes of the front porch. And as you sang to me, you reminded me that it'd all be worthwhile, that it all would work out in the end.