Nancy Stephan's Blog, page 3
May 9, 2020
An Open Letter to My Baby Mama
My darling, I didnt always give you the credit you deserved, and sometimes I was judgmental and downright cruel. The words I spoke into your spirit and sometimes behind your back were toxic. (My eyes are heavy with tears as I write this.) I know Ive said this before, but its Mothers Day, and I want to say it officially, once and for all. No one couldve been our girls mother but you, and no one couldve done it better.
I had always been hard on you, but after our girl took her last breath, I...
April 15, 2020
9 Reasons Why I Quarantine in Silence
This list speaks for itself.
I cannot sleep, so I go online. I see an article entitled, Worlds Funniest Kittens with a photo of a kitten parachuting above a pool of splashing puppies. I really want to read this story, so I click on the START button next to the photo. But the START button opens to an ad for cheap car insurance. I back out of the ad and find the actual start button beneath the picture buried in a cluster of flashing graphics. After clicking through 236 photos of kittens doing...January 15, 2020
November 24, 2019
National Novel Writing Month in Review
This was my first time participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I’ve never really given much thought to NaNoWriMo because I don’t write fiction, but just a few days before the November 1st kickoff, it occurred to me that it might be a good way to make some headway with my current project. So without much preparation, I created a NaNoWriMo account and set my goal for a chapter a day and a total of 25,000 words. I reached 26 chapters and 26,121 words on November 21 and...
