Sometimes an imbalanced week of competing priorities can offer just enough clarity as to what your next steps should be. For me I think this week was a good cleansing of the mind. I still got some stuff done (not as much as I wanted).

I’ve been writing pretty hard lately. Every night I start at 8/8:30 pm and work until midnight/1:00 am, only to get up at 6:30 am with my kids. To say I’m exhausted is an understatement. To say that I’m pushing myself to the max is, well, right on point. Luckily, I’m in the brainstorming phase of my latest project, so I don’t feel pressure in making sure every word is perfect. In fact, when I’m actually writing I feel the most relaxed and at peace.

Our first week back from vacation and we’re already in the think of misery - balancing working from home, helping two rambunctious boys with online school, looking for jobs, searching for a new place to live, and trying to write something that makes sense and that people would want to read.

I think it was Joyce Carol Oates who said the greatest enemy to writing is interruption. I can definitely attest to the truth of that observation. This week was cray.

Got up ridiculously early because my youngest son literally gets up before the birds. Add to that a healthy mix of work and teaching and helping both boys with school and working on my new pilot…I’m blurry-eyed as I write this post. But, dammit, I’m going to keep writing.