A Better Day
After a LONG sick week
After a stretch of feeling so utterly knocked down, I finally felt well enough to do something today. Phew!
Sophie and I spent it working on her upcoming booth for the kids’ entrepreneur fair in October. One of her favorite projects right now is a Wicked-themed 13-day bracelet advent calendar for the movie release (or Christmas). It’s such a fun idea — little jewelry bags clipped to a string with mini clothespins.
Meanwhile, I’m easing back into my writing: catching up here, returning to my Red Riding Hood coloring book and The Forest is Calling, and slowly working through the enormous backlog that built up since July/August… that grew even bigger this past week. In the midst of everything, even some of my creator tools like Canva lapsed—another sign of how full the past couple of months have been. And money has been really tight, of course. I’m picking those pieces back up now, and it feels good to be moving forward again. Even slowly.
My goal isn’t just to “get these books done asap.” I want them to be beautiful, thoughtful, and something I can be proud of—something genuinely worth your time and support.
Thank you, as always, for reading and for being part of this community. Your encouragement makes it easier to keep going, even when my progress feels slow or interrupted.
Shannon, I'm so glad to see your headline and the news that more of your writing is revving up on your screen!
I've missed that edge you have, that way to get the soul of a story and then zero in on an angle, fact, side-event, whatever that's right there staring us all in the face that I haven't considered.
Enlightening.
That's the word I'm looking for. It's my personal favorite skill of your unlimited way with words.
Linda Carroll, another great writer here who I adore, has a different voice, of course, but the same type of amazing talent.
Both of you manage to conjure up an article that's something akin to a non-fiction Agatha Christie mystery when the Dame finally unravels my brain enough for me to see what I could have seen all along--if I'd only set my mind free to wonder instead of trying to make my initial suspect "fit!"
Oh, and please tell Sophie that once she gets bitten by the 'Crafting Fairy,' there is no way back! It just gets deeper and bigger and better and, if 'funner' were a word, it's that too!
And while I'm no fortune teller, I do believe I see some acrylic pour painting in both of your futures--likely you mixing, Sophie pouring, and both of you cleaning it all up!
Thanks for the good news! Much love always, Susan Thomas
Good to hear you are on tge mend. Long may it last!