First! I want to tell you about a free workbook you can download off my site: Jumpstart Your Writing in Six Steps. If you sign up to download it, you’ll be part of my mailing list, which just means you’ll get an email when there’s a new blog entry (yes, I’m re-starting the blog! It will be about writing, mostly, probably, but then that’s what this newsletter was going to be and we all see how that went).

Now let’s talk about the important issue at hand, which of course is driving. Mainly: why are we doing this? And: do I really have to?

I have some new subscribers, so first, hello, and welcome! I have a driving phobia. I haven’t driven a car since we moved out of New Jersey, which was 14 years ago. I wasn’t comfortable driving for the entire three years we lived in New Jersey; I avoided the highway with a few notable (in my mind) exceptions. Since we moved to Brooklyn, I haven’t so much as sat in a driver’s seat. But as of two weeks ago, we live in the country! So it’s time for me to figure this out.