Reading and writing have always been an escape for me – I do both for fun, mostly unofficially. I have bookmarks in about ten books in my living room and my coffee table is covered with stacks of magazines that I know I will end up hoarding. When I need to get away and find some calm, you can usually find me wandering a bookstore with coffee in hand, stroking the book covers in what I promise is a completely non-creepy way. It soothes me. Mmm, coffee. Mmm, books.
In a similar fashion, writing offers a chance to work through my day, my week, my life so that I may see more clearly. I make lists, jot down goals, write letters. Lately I have been tweeting up a storm on Twitter. (If you don’t know what Twitter is, you’re probably the only one getting anything done in your office. But you’re also having less fun. Look it up.) I am just as happy to write a long, chatty email to a friend as I am to receive one. (Okay, that’s a total lie, I love the getting.) There is something about thoughtfully going through what is on my mind, choosing my words one by one, that leads the way to clearer thinking…or the decision to break out the chocolate. And sometimes when the parenting gets too extreme, or life gets ridiculous, the best solution is to share it with others and have a good laugh over it.
I haven’t come up with a theme for this blog, or some jazzy description of how it fits into the enormous and endless space of the internet. I just know that it feels right to take my affection for the written word one step further and create a place of my own. In all likelihood, it will be a little bit of everything: my kids, my chaotic life juggling full time motherhood with owning a business and working from home, and maybe a little heckling of my husband (oh yes, I will). Food, wine, things that catch my eye and anything that makes me laugh during an average day. And probably a whole lot of me not taking the chaos too seriously.
Enjoy it with a generous helping of chocolate and coffee. I will be - I am Little Miss Mocha, after all. ; )
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