Cycling 'on' again
Hello friends,
Last time I sent out a newsletter (November 16th), I said I'd check back in again on December 1st. Today is December 2nd... so... oops. I imagine I am the only one who realized On / Off was supposed to come out yesterday and didn't, and I'm trying not to feel badly about it.
Instead of writing a newsletter, I published a blog post yesterday. It's the one I've been working on for a while about the pandemic and I was feeling pretty nervous about publishing it because I don't really want to argue with people about the pandemic. I usually share my blog posts to facebook, but I haven't gotten up the nerve to share this one yet, so only a handful of people have read it. I did wake up this morning to a nice email from my aunt saying she thought it was a great post and completely agreed with me, which was validating. She's the only member of my dad's family that I'm semi-regularly in touch with, so it was also just nice to hear from her.
I had a dream about my dad the other night, which doesn't happen very often, but when it does, waking up is always a bit startling. Maybe I'll write a newsletter about it next week.
That's a roundabout way of saying what the title of this newsletter has already announced: On / Off is cycling 'on' again. I'm glad that I took some time off and I did get some writing/pitching/submitting done during my break from this regular writing ritual. But... I've also missed this regular writing ritual. Sitting down and doing some writing in the morning sets a good tone for my day. It's much better than writing at this point (right before dinner), when I'm hungry and just feeling like I need to accomplish something before I step away from my computer for the day.
So, that's all I've got for now, but I'll be back Monday through Thursday of next week with new issues of this newsletter for your reading pleasure.
Love,
Emma