I’d rather be sailing….

When we were teenagers, one of my brothers had a t-shirt that said “I’d rather be sailing.”  We were not sailors; the shirt was a Velva-Sheen special.  I had one that advertised a women’s college, stating “50 years of Women on Top.”  It took me years to figure out why everyone snickered when I wore it in gym class.  Anyway, I was thinking of my brother’s t-shirt today and I said to myself, “I’d rather be writing.”  Very few writers have the luxury, the fun, the outright blessing of writing full-time and supporting themselves doing it.  Writing is, however, one of the few things in my life that when I’m doing it, there is absolutely nothing else I’d rather be doing.  I work full-time, I am a wife and a mother, I have a house that needs cleaning.  I have to carve out time to write and I look forward to those times as much as I looked forward to my birthday when I was young. My words of wisdom for the day?  Find your passion–writing, music, movie-making–and never stop believing that there will be a day when you can devote all of your time and energy to nurturing it.