![Earlier this week, @marz1pan agreed to eat lunch at our local Irish pub to celebrate me finally finishing my draft of my Irish paranormal romance.
The proprietor, who sees me regularly, asked if I was knitting for a new addition. I said “No, these socks are for me!?!” and I held it up for him to see.
He smiled and walked away.
After he left, I asked Megan “Did he just ask if I was pregnant?”
She said “Yes. You didn’t misunderstand.”
And then I sat for a second. Someone asked if I was pregnant the week before Mother’s Day and I didn’t feel overrun by grief.
My gaping wound is healing and becoming a scar I can touch without it gutting me.
Two things have contributed to this:
- therapy
- doing the work of writing a heroine who finds joy after life lifes all over her.
While I hunt for and find joy on a regular basis, the act of working through this fictional plot has been healing. I’m so grateful for my writing journey.
I’m especially grateful to those who joined my Inner Circle Email List and read my romance shorts. Your support kept me trying when I got stuck. Thank you, Crew! I love you!!!
[ID: Frida Kahlo project bag folded down to show off the bees inside, rainbow shortie sock, salad, BLT sandwich against the background of a corner of my local Irish pub.
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May 14
2011
The Jeanie was finished in time for the wedding. I blocked it on my hotel bed the night before the wedding.
The bride was worried it would be very cool at the end of March. It wasn’t. It was hot. So hot that I only got to wear the Jeanie for two minutes to show my parents. I didn’t even get a picture of me in it. My hair and makeup were all fixed. I really should have had someone take a picture. Perhaps my brain was overheated?
I will reblock it again (for real) at some point and take a better pic, but I’ve no idea what I’ll do with it. What can I wear this with other than the dress it was made to match? any ideas? anyone?
It really is beautiful. sigh.
I know, it was so warm that day lol. I guess it’s good it wasn’t cold or raining though?!
I don’t think I even got to see it up close :( I’ll just have to come see it in person though!