The Process

Here are the things I am loving this month! Eating -- Greens. I am part of a Community Supported Agriculture program and they deliver me Georgia Grown seasonal veggies. Winter greens like Kale and Collards are taking up space in my fridge and my belly. Drinking -- Red wine. I signed up for Firstleaf a year ago and I have zero regrets about it. Watching -- Gaslight (1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. This film is the origin for the term that describes psychological m

The thing about burnout is you don’t always recognize it as burnout -- you’re just exhausted. Or at least that’s how I felt all the time. I pushed myself to get my Ph.D., which at the beginning felt like a wonderful, exciting adventure. I was so sure it was the right thing for me to do, I was excited by every potential class, I wanted to discuss ideas with like-minded peers. By the end, I was a gross, haggard, overweight version of my former self. I hated everything and every

I love hearing about other Writer’s Processes. Writing is not entertaining to watch, which is why we currently have no reality shows about it. Painters and potters have incredibly photogenic processes with color and splatters and muddy hands. Fashion designers have dramatic processes with color and flowing fabrics, even when it is pooling from the end of a a sewing machine. Photographers have the red light rooms and pools of water. Writers have a laptop. We don’t even have ty