- Sleeping late
- Making breakfast with my husband
- Attending a rockin' service at Crosspoint Wesleyan
- Eating home-cooked meals ... and by home, I really mean Mom
- Spending time with friends and family
Monday morning is a cold, cruel world.
Every Monday without fail, I hit the snooze button so many times that my husband now laughs hysterically at any sentence that begins, "First I'll wake up ..." Of course, he could just be mocking my "Yuki the Yeti" hat.
But coffee makes the world go 'round.
Today at work I spent a beautiful six hours falling in love with picture books all over again. My favorite stories are the sad-but-happy ones. The girl with an autistic brother. The young couple with a Downs' toddler. The child who loses a grandparent.
Although Kelly DiPucchio's Zombie in Love made me giggle.
So much of life is loss. So much of writing is reading. So much of creating is seeing.
And feeling.
And living.
At least that's what I tell myself when I'm lying on the couch after supper watching Everybody Loves Raymond through half-closed eyelids.
In my defense, the cat did need a warm place to sleep.
The last two days haven't been a total write-off, though. Looking for other "1000" blogs, I stumbled across Neil Pasricha's 1000 Awesome Things, which you may know as the wildly popular Book of Awesome. He accepts submissions for publication on his blog and in future books. I submitted a short piece titled, "The Double Snow Day." I'll let you know if I hear back from him.
My editor and I also finalized my book review assignments for the next four months:
January: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
February: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
March: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
April: An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
I picked up Wintergirls at Chapters today - a story about a girl struggling with anorexia - and I look forward to reading and reviewing all of these books in the months to come.
Enjoy your journey!
An old sketch of my husband ca. 2007. True love ... takes A LOT of work.
But worth it.
How can you not love someone who gets dressed in the dark every Monday?
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