Tag Archives: procrastination

My Writing Life

By Erin | Published: September 6, 2011

I have the day free to write. I did a bunch of prep work last week specifically so I could clear today’s schedule just for writing. Over the weekend, I read over everything I wrote in San Francisco and brainstormed some things I might write this week. So, today, my writing day, has gone like [...]

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Work/Life

By Erin | Published: January 26, 2011

The semester is in full swing: there is writing to grade, there are discussions to shape, there are poems to study. If I loved teaching last fall, I love it more now. Jesse and I have started driving to work together two days a week. We get up in the dark, and I make us [...]

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Striving

By Erin | Published: January 21, 2011

Yesterday, I had a long to-do list. So I did exactly what we all do when we have long to-do lists: I looked at real estate I’ll never be able to afford and took Oprah quizzes about what I should do with my life. (I have a house. I also think I know what I [...]

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Rest

By Erin | Published: April 22, 2010

Last Sunday, I had an epiphany. Well, it had been brewing for a while, but Sunday afternoon was when I decided to get serious about it. Sometime last week, Jesse observed: “You never just sit.” I may stop for a moment, but even in my times of “rest,” I’m always consuming something or doing something—reading, [...]

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Wordle

By Erin | Published: November 11, 2009

Check this out: Wordle. It’s a site that makes a little word picture of your blog or another piece of writing, based on the frequency of the words you use. Seriously addictive. Rachel O. shared this delightful site on her blog yesterday. Thanks, Rachel. Now, instead of actually writing, I can Wordle away! (The very [...]

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