My writing

I regularly post in one of my blogs, I have three and while you found this one for whatever reason I love the others just as much. I keep one for my thoughts called timetostopandthink.com, one about my teaching experiences called 180-days-of-teaching.com, and I also have a website where I have started to collect my fiction stories.

Why am I sharing this? First of all, because I love writing. Truly, deeply enjoy writing. I love coming at things from different perspectives. I love writing about the random things I think about because I believe the world would be a better place if we all reflected on what we think and why. I love writing about teaching because it’s been a job, but also a lifestyle, for the past 23 years and I’ve learned so much from my students. I love writing here about how I have found ways to explore who I am and what kinds of things I try in order to be a better person. I love writing stories because they are like my little dream children. They are the things that come to me in the middle of the night and whisper in my ear while I sleep so I wake up knowing there is a story in whatever is in my thoughts. I honestly don’t know how else to explain it.

When my life fell apart I stopped writing. It was actually one of the ways I knew something was seriously broken. How was it possible that I could lose interest in something I loved so much was a question I actively searched my heart, mind to figure out. I still don’t know why, but I do know that starting this blog and sharing the things I was trying in order to pull my life back together, to find things I loved, to experience things that would bring me joy or peace, or both, was a lifesaver.

What comes next? I have no idea. I’ll keep working on finding things that bring me back towards being the person I was before my life crashed and burned and sharing them here but I’m also going to work on sharing my writing with a wider audience because, of all the different things I’ve tried, it is the one thing that makes me happy deep in my soul.