![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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SPOILER ALERT!
Seriously, if you haven’t seen the movie, please stop reading now and come back after you’ve seen it because it is really good and I don’t want to ruin it for you!
The Lessons:
1. If you cheat on your spouse, you die.
2. So does your kid.
3. So does your lover.
4. Casinos are a good place to pick up life threatening viruses.
5. Wash your hands and don’t touch your face.
6. Never thank a chef for a lovely meal…especially in a foreign country.
7. In case of an epidemic, it is better to live in the country than the city where people are stealing from each other, shooting one another, and touching surfaces.
8. Yes, it is a little scarey to have someone with a hacking cough in the theater and no, I’m not sure if it was real or meant to make everyone more nervous.
9. And lastly, the part of this movie that I found unbelievable was the idea that someone was cheating on Matt Damon.
Women that left the theater with me and headed straight to the bathroom were doing really serious jobs of washing their hands. This movie is one heck of a PSA.