Math Anxiety

I cannot believe how much I love stats. Literally, I cried with tutors over math my entire life! But give me some stats problems to solve and I will not stop until I figure them out. I liked stats 10 years ago, and I still like it now. Wild. If I were to go back to my younger self and tell her that her thing is stats, psst let all the other math stuff go, she wouldn’t believe me! Not one bit. Math gives me anxiety. I have the worst math anxiety ever. It’s actually embarrassing.

So weird. I like weird though so it works.

What’s your relationship with math? Do you have an aspect of math that lights your fire?

Merry Go Round

“How do you know it’s time to take your girlfriend to a merry-go-round?”
“When you want to spin the rest of your life with her.”

When I was a kid, I used to love the merry-go-round. I liked trying to walk afterward and feeling the world around me. These days, I get excited when I see a merry-go-round because they are so rare. But at the same time, the playgrounds these kiddos have today are pretty cool.

That’s all I got for today. Do you miss riding Merry go rounds?

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The Right Time

“I am in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.”

I’m on my way to 40, and it’s starting to get to me. I went down the rabbit hole of feeling like I wasted so much time (5 years) trying to have and keep a baby that I didn’t stay focused on my own dreams. Fast forward 10-ish years later, I’m basically in the spot I left off, and it is frustrating, but now I know. I know when the entire day slips by it’s because I’m mastering my craft. When I’m chatting about psychology, the conversation comes so naturally. When I find a database that has the latest articles on neuroscience and I read them in my free time. This is exactly where I’m supposed to be. And on another thought, maybe my novel is just one big Carl Jung inkblot test for those who want to play that type of game. I don’t know, but I do know, I am exactly where I’m supposed to be right now.

I hope that this blog post returns when I need this reminder.

Word After Word

“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

I’m just over here putting words after words. I’m not in it for the power over others but for the power over my own thoughts and actions. There’s a lot going on every day. It’s so easy to lose yourself in it all. Writing has been the best thing to keep me focused after all these years.

Write It Out

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” – Jules Renard

This is interesting. This must be coming from a different type of mind because I interrupt my own thoughts, words, flow, and whatever else all the time. Just now, I just interrupted myself. You would never know from reading this blog how many times I interrupt myself. I’m sure I’m not alone in this.

At this point, I allow those interruptions to help me think through my own thoughts and opinions. I don’t give them all my focus, but I don’t want to be one-sided. I do want to learn and grow from my experiences.

With that being said, I think that writing is a place where you can blow off some steam. There’s no reason to hold it all in.

Do you write it out when you’re angry?

Happy Valentine’s Day

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas

I knew I wanted to marry my husband when I saw him, but I knew even more when he became my best friend. I could tell him anything, and it felt like I had known him forever on our first date. Fast forward to today, here we are living for our dreams. Finding ways to improve ourselves so that we can better answer the call, accepting where we are, living in faith, letting go of old beliefs, and sticking together even after all the illusions fizzle away. I’d say we are doing a swell job!

Still Going

“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” – Octavia E. Butler

I write more crap than anything else. But I don’t give up. I’ve come too far to give up now. Honestly, I wouldn’t have made it this far without my mentor and my tribe. Those two things are important to me; they give me life and perspective and a million other things that make me a better human.

Finish It

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” ― Samuel Johnson

I look forward to having a work of art that I feel good about. I look forward to seeing the different reactions from readers. I almost want to do a survey at the end. I mean, it is experimental fiction. Do we use the scientific method as writers? Imagine creating the perfect read based on data. Would it really be the perfect read? What about in the future?

Anyways, I love writing and thinking about the unique experiences that we have as readers.

What do you think?

Show Some Guts

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” – Jessamyn West

Oh, the places I’ve been and the places I’ll go with my writing. I’ve made a whole fool of myself as a writer, and yet I’ve learned more from writing than from anything else I’ve done. The things I’ve gained from writing are things people can’t take away from me: patience, self-care, commitment, and discipline. Not only that, I’ve also gained irreplaceable writing friends. I’m grateful for all the writers who prop me up in an infinite number of ways and always at the right time. All this I gained from facing my fears. I had no choice but to cast my worries aside to see that my writing got done. And so yes, it required guts to get me here, but that’s a small price to pay. The rewards feel infinite.

Lost Illusion

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. ‘Lost Illusion’ is the undisclosed title of every novel.” – Andre Maurois

Man just ruin it all for us huh Andre. Disillusionment is not fun and exciting. It’s uncomfortable. But as David Thoreau once wrote, “better than love, better than money, better than fame, grace me with the truth. ” (And I got that on a t shirt.) It’s true, we have these grand dreams. We have these grand ideas and then you come to ask yourself, this isn’t really how it works, is it? But what’s great is that once you take a moment to accept the truth, you get the chance to learn how to love those beside you a little better. I think that is probably one of the greatest things I’ve learned over the years.