by Ira | Feb 23, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Making this a quick one, but…took it more low-key today. Work was actually fairly busy, but I didn’t try to cram in all the other stuff. I mentally took it off. Let stuff go. It worked. I feel better. One step toward better, anyway. Mental recharge, here I come. Night...
by Ira | Feb 22, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Hit a bit of a wall today energy-wise. And not even writing-wise, just in general. Writing was good this morning! Great, even. It’s coming together. The best week I’ve had writing so far this year, in fact. But man…round lunch, when it was time to do yoga…I was done....
by Ira | Feb 21, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Left my iPad out in my office. Eye roooollll. Thumbin it over here on the old iPhone. Joy is being a maniac tonight. So silly. Right now she’s digging into my leg like she needs to build a burrow. And now she just dove underneath the blankets and wants to play blanket...
by Ira | Feb 20, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
A busier day today, both writing-wise and work-wise…and I’m bushed. Feeling…feeling resistance. I’m close on this outline. But I’m not there yet. Big hole missing. I’ve been coming at it from a plot perspective, and I’ve gotten things reeaaaalllyyy close. But maybe I...
by Ira | Feb 19, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Joy giving me kisses right now on my arm. Sweetie pie. Good writing day. Otherwise…it was slow, and that means anxiety creeps in, which god, I know…there’s issues there. Issues calming down. Issues being idle. I know this. I know this. Working on it. It’s not that...
by Ira | Feb 18, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I watched a documentary today on the opioid crisis in this country, and it was pretty eye opening. How often our healthcare system fails people. Law enforcement, too, and government. There are good people out there, without question, but there are also a LOT more...
