Lifestyle
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Well, I finally did it. I finally got back to starting my workout and meditation routine this morning, so hopefully I can start making it a habit again. I used to do a small session nearly every day before work started to get too overwhelming for me to manage setting the time aside, and I’ve…
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We’ve all heard it. Mondays suck. The weekend is over. Everyone’s suffering from a case of the Mondays. Well, I’m very pleased to rub it in everyone’s faces right now that, for me, a case of the Mondays is pretty much a case of awesome. Chalk it up as yet another fantastic part of quitting…
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I have become consumed by my writing. For the most part, this is a good thing. An excellent thing. This is the reason why I quit my job, so that I could once again be infused with the passion of creating that I used to have, that has gotten buried under the minutiae of a…
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Right now, as I’m typing this, I’m on a train cutting through the Michigan countryside, trying not to get sick. One of the benefits of having quit my day job is that I now have the time to visit home, which I haven’t been able to do in two years. Obscene. I’m going on Tuesday…
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Anyone who knows me well knows that I have difficulty being patient, especially once I’ve decided something and I’m looking forward to do it. The countdown has started for my last days as someone with a “Real Job,” about to embark on being the full-time self-employed writer of my dreams. These next four days feel…
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Well, it’s finally official. I have quit my job to focus on writing full-time. Technically, I’m still with the company until the end of March, but when April hits, I will be a free woman. I’m equal parts exhilarated and terrified right now, especially since I don’t have a part time job lined up yet.…
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Funny how time flies. Not so much from having fun in this instance, but from just having too much damn stuff to do. Here we sit, halfway through February already, and I’m boggling on how it felt like just the other day, it was January and I was setting lofty and impressive goals for myself,…
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Well, it’s Monday. For most people, Monday means a return to the grueling grind of daily life, but, for me, Monday is sacred. It’s the one and only day of the week where I can truly dedicate myself to my writing as a career. Very rarely do I have any obligations on a Monday these…
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Today is the first day of the life I want to live. A bold statement. But what the heck does it mean? It isn’t the first time I’ve written in this blog about the fact that, if I want to make writing my life, I have to start treating it like the job I want…
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Here in Chicagoland…err, I mean, Chiberia, we’re experiencing record cold temperatures. Naturally, schools are closed, events are canceled, but in our crazy consumerism world, shopping malls are still open. I work at one of those, an outdoor mall, to boot, so I almost had to work today, but my Florida-native general manager managed to convince…
L.S. Engler 