The Abyss
(astro.ucla.edu) A black hole. Just a great big space where ideas are sucked up and disappear. That’s my head right now. Something will spark at the edge of my brain and when I attempt to grab it, it slips away, like so much mercury in my fingertips. I’ve had a couple people ask me in the last day or two, if I blog every day. No, I told them. I did in November and December, but this month I’m cutting back. Now I’m sitting here without a thought in my head. (All right, I have thoughts, but they aren’t about blogging. They’re things like- where did all my scissors go? And-will the chicken get done in time to make dinner? And-why doesn’t anyone fold that laundry?) Blogging every day was difficult and sometimes stressful. My husband asked if it was worth it- the anxiety. But, it was. My writing improved and ideas came every single almost every day. So, I’ve decided I’m going back to the everyda...