June 2022 Monthly Wrap-Up
Wow, June was a busy month! I spent the first week of the month in Mississippi to celebrate my grandpa’s 90th birthday with extended family. It was such a sweet and special time. I also enjoyed going to a Ben Rector concert with my family, and having Grace Anne come spend the last weekend of the month with me. It was a whirlwind month–as soon as I recovered from one big event, it was time to get ready for another one–but so much fun.
Reading: This May End Badly, Samantha Markum. Malamander, Thomas Taylor. Again Again and Genuine Fraud, E. Lockhart. The Sea in Winter, Christine Day. Forging Silver Into Stars, A Curse So Dark and Lonely (reread), A Heart So Fierce and Broken (reread), and A Vow So Bold and Deadly (reread), Brigid Kemmerer. Buses Are A’Comin: Memoir of a Freedom Rider, Charles Person. My Mechanical Romance, Alexene Farol Follmuth. Mark: Free to Follow Jesus, David Hewitt. 12 total.
Listening to: Ben Rector. Elena: Little Women EP. The Summer I Turned Pretty soundtrack. Lips Are Movin’, Meghan Trainor. Cruel Summer, Taylor Swift.
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Watching: YouTube–Natalie Barbu. Movies–Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. TV shows–The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Writing: Outside of work (where I hit a new income record), I finally freaking finished the first draft of The Art of Staying (it was very anticlimactic? And the draft overall is an enormous mess). Then I started another round of edits on Things We’ve Lost. I did volunteer work with the Diamonds Conference and People Hope; wrote songs (listen here to an original song); and wrote letters to pen pals. I also really enjoyed being interviewed on Nathan Collier’s Content Marketing Lounge podcast–listen to my episode here.
Buying: A Natasha Romanoff shirt. PENS (I only use one kind of pen and it was literally falling apart, but now I have THREE). Bathing suits.
Grateful for: Going swimming for the first time in three years. Catching up with a friend on the phone. My career. Grass under my toes. Feeling so creatively inspired. My favorite infusion nurse.
What did you do in June?
