Taking life day-by-day as a writer, romantic, and explorer in the mountains of East Tennessee. I'm making it up as a go along, and this is where I share my journey.
What started as a LinkedIn post about how this neuroatypical planner broke through self-judgment and planned a nurturing birthday week is now this blog, complete with a rant-y bit at the end about hustle culture and adaption.
Read MoreWords don't always come out the way I intend and this has consequences. In this post, I share my experience of dealing with these consequences in a situation I never expected to encounter. Sometimes, we make mistakes. We make messes we can't clean up. And, we have to move on with grace.
Read MoreLife tends to pass by in a blur, dotted with formative moments, the occasional surprise that moves you, and can only be remembered with the fleeting space we have in our minds. This year I made a point to document as much as I could - to take photos, write in journals, create plans and lists and save them for later. Packing everything I owned into a bus mid-year had me regretting my memory hoarding, but looking back this week, it was entirely worth it.
Read on for the whole year in review!
Read MoreIf you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up at six years old, I would have told you straight: a writer. I'd already written plenty of short stories, including an illustrated children's book about my cat that was published in spiralbound and distributed to local children's libraries. At twelve, I established my pen-name: A. G. Stephens, who would someday author a slew of Young Adult fantasy and dystopian novels akin to Harry Potter and Scott Westerfield's Uglies series.
Read on to learn about my journey to becoming a writer and what's up next.
Read More"Doing nothing out here is better than doing anything in the city."
I can't believe I was the person to say that. While the city has always pulled me, with its seemingly endless opportunities, a constant exposure to newness, and the buzz of fellow humans living their lives, the quietness of the woods has stolen my heart. Even up to the day we left for a weekend in the Obed with friends visiting from St Pete, I was reluctant to enjoy myself out in nature, climbing and hiking. Danger, uncertainty, weather, gear, accessibility, so many thoughts were trying to keep me from enjoying the pure beauty of this planet. I am not nearly as strong as nature; she knocked me down and set me straight.
Read MoreYesterday, I caught up with Meg of Root for Food, an Insta-famous food blogger I had no idea lived right down the street from me until we got connected. We met at Love Food Central with her pup Iroh and though we hadn’t hung out but once in a group before, we clicked immediately like old friends.
We touched on a lot of topics - some health and nutrition, the book Better Than Before which we’re both reading, and largely: running online businesses.
Read MoreEthical, conscious, intentioned living with Amelia Bartlett.
Taking life day-by-day in the mountains of East Tennessee. I'm making it up as a go along, and this is where I share my journey.
Experimenting with shorter and shorter works, hell-bent on cultivating narrative minimalist.
Prompt: Write a contemporary scene in which there is an element of fantasy- this may involve a talisman that has magical properties, a person that has magical or supernatural capacities, or a supernatural animal or being.
With help from a special friend, the new kid at daycare goes from outcast to drum major in a fantastic froggy parade.
To earn his place in the pack, a new stray will have to partner with some unlikely allies and pull off an un-bun-lievable heist.
A short story about an ant who realized there were better things he could be doing.
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A seedy romance told through the journal entries of a failed actress-turned-prostitute in a brothel fronted by a deli in late 1970s Times Square, known then as ‘The Deuce.’