This is a post I wrote in the middle of the night.
And then I woke up and read it and it amused me. So here you go! So, I haven't posted for four months, and I just got word that my advertisers are like "listen, we're good." And I was like like "what do you mean?" and they were like "can we just be friends? You know,...
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Lots of things feel full circle (Alexa Joyce Weed)
In May of 2006, we had our first baby. Anna. She was tiny. Now, in May of 2015, we have had what we know to be our last baby. Alexa. She, too, is tiny. And I mean tiny. Hi. I'm Alexa Joyce. One of the smallest humans on this planet. Just like Anna, she was a five...
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Happy Easter!!
There are 30 minutes left of Easter, and I've been wanting to write this post all day. So, I'm gonna. It's been such a great day for my little family. We had our own little Easter dinner, complete with roast and funeral potatoes and mashed potatoes and sparkling...
read moreA video about my mom
For anyone who doesn't know, my mom has Early Onset Alzheimer's. She's 59, and she'll likely die within the next few years. It's one of the most devastating diseases I've ever seen. It's really difficult for us, as her children, to explain to people just how horrific...
read morePost #14–Hope Springs Eternal
A few weeks ago I randomly started writing the story of something horrible that happened to my writing career in the summer of 2013. This is the last post in that series. You probably won't understand the impact of this post without reading the ones that come before...
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Post #13–Ultrasound
I've worked for hours on the final post in this little series. It's LOOONG. It feels very cathartic to almost be done. But, yes, you read the title of today's post correctly. Lolly and I have an announcement to make: We are having another spawn!!! This afternoon, we...
read morePost #12–Things Fall Apart
I'm back to trying to describe the indescribable. After day nine, came day ten. Then day eleven. And with each day came either nothing, or, a few times, another breathtaking rejection from another publishing house. But still there was hope. There were 16 proposals...
read morePost #11–Keep the faith
This is the part that's impossible to put into words. Imagine waking up every day knowing that the most amazing thing that has ever happened in your life could happen that day. And then imagine going to bed that night, having had it not happen, and the...
read morePost #10–The Waiting Game
Suddenly, we were "on submission." 'On submission' is short for "on submission to publishers." It's the period of time where your agent is taking your manuscript or proposal and is sending it to their contacts in the literary world. In my case, our proposal was being...
read morePost #9–Proposal
Looking back a year-and-half, I can see the warning signs that were interlaced with all the excitement. That's how hindsight works. At the time though, they were undetectable. At the time, this felt like an absolute culmination of all things in my life. It felt...
read morePost #8: Snapshot of my life right now
We interrupt this story to bring you a snapshot of my life right now: My sister and her family pulled up to my house two hours ago. The kids are running around the house screaming. Luggage is being brought up the stairs, gifts are going under the tree, there is...
read morePost #7–A fun ride.
I could barely contain my excitement. I had trouble conceptualizing what my life even was. I had always known I would break into the literary world… but this? A memoir? A co-written memoir about my marriage? I had never, in a million years, considered that this...
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