Blog Posts

  • “A friend you lost track of”

    I am going to keep using Jami Attenberg’s prompts for this blog; otherwise, I might never write anything. If you are new here, I have been blogging since 2003! Here is the prompt from her newsletter #1000wordsofsummer: Start with remembering… Read more →

  • What Readers Could Feel

    Hi folks, here is another writing prompt from Jami Attenberg (I will be using these prompts from her paid newsletter #1000wordsofsummer to try and get me to use this blog more): “So a simple weekend prompt for you is to… Read more →

  • 2020 with a Toddler

    Sitting in a park, waiting for the minutes to pass Chicago Winter The year opened like any other for most people, maybe. For me, it opened with the new responsibility of taking care of a crawling baby while the ground… Read more →

  • Baby: 9 months in, 9 months out

    Pregnancy Test

    When you have a baby, you get lots of advice. One early tip was to keep a journal of the experience, to help you process things, or remember things. This blog would have been the perfect place to keep a… Read more →

  • ASMR on YouTube

    ASMR Olivia Kissper

    What is ASMR? I first heard of ASMR when I was living in Saudi Arabia, trawling the internet at night, as everyone who lives alone in a studio apartment is wont to do. For the uninitiated, ASMR stands for autonomous… Read more →

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