UBC Day 1: Rough Starts Yet Nostalgia Reigns

So here I am again, two years to the day that I tried the last blog challenge where I was supposed to write thirty days in a row. If I were more organized…but I’m not, so that thought isn’t even worth finishing.

When I thought about doing this yet again, I had so many self-deprecating things that I could have said about how sometimes I don’t finish what I start. But instead, I asked myself how I could make this a sustainable challenge for me that would be fun and not like homework. Dreading making a post isn’t a good way to keep the momentum.
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UBC Day 16: I’m Not the SuperHero You Need, but I’m the SuperHero You Deserve?

I have many gifts and talents, but none of them extend to work around the house that goes beyond basic cleaning. I’ve lived in apartments for most of my adult life. I’ve never been the type who could just touch something with their hands and figure out how it all goes together, or more importantly, how it comes apart. These are probably lessons I should have learned early on. If I had, though, I wouldn’t have such great stories!
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UBC Day 3: Teenaged Poetry Slam! How It All Went Wrong

Many of you may know that I am a voracious reader, and at some point during this thirty day challenge, I will tell the stories of what shaped my reading habits and gave me a pure and unadulterated passion for the written word. You may also know that my number one genre is romance. To that end, I find it hysterical that during my teenaged years, no one was finding their happily-ever-after in anything that I wrote. Since one of my many talents includes the ability to make fun of myself, let’s take a journey of what that body of written work included.
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