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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day. The closest thing I can think of is my ability to put my entire fist in my mouth, which I\u2019ve demonstrated at a family reunion or two. There must be other unique talents lurking somewhere; maybe the ability to crank out a blog post every day for nearly a year even when sitting back down at my computer in the evening is the last thing I want to do, especially when I have nothing profound to say. But then again, this particular blog experiment wasn\u2019t meant to be profound. Its purpose is to keep me writing every day because, quite frankly, after pushing out my fourth book earlier this year, it\u2019s been difficult to get motivated again. Maybe it\u2019s been the steady stream of workers in and out and around my house since April; the constant disruption and project management. Then I read stories about how mothers of multiple children sit down at 11 PM to write what will become a multi-million-dollar best seller after they\u2019ve taken care of the kids, helped with homework, cooked meals, did laundry, cleaned the house, managed the spouse, and did whatever umpteen gazillion things we women do. Or they\u2019re desperately poor and jot notes on caf\u00e9 napkins to outline a story idea about a wizard boy. I don\u2019t know how these people do it. Maybe if I had had kids I would have been more motivated.<\/p>\n
Baked soda bread this morning, watched the amazing tiler begin to design my bathroom floor, and signed off work early to go for a walk with Hubby when he returned from work. The beaver that had started making a meal out of a creekside tree last winter has never returned; the gnaw marks now darkening with the weather. Another episode of Yellowstone tonight (why are we still watching this incredibly violent show whose only redeeming value is the familiar scenery of my old Montana?), plus an hour on a difficult puzzle. Four days off and the home stretch to 2022.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s gratitude: covid booster and a massage.<\/p>\n
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