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I’m working to be confident in what I write every week. I tell myself at every rereading and every edit that if I put my best foot forward, I’ll make something worthwhile. Even if it’s just a list of recipes rather than a heartfelt confession like this, I know I’m putting in the steps to improve.

When I was in quarantine in my hometown, all I wanted to do was leave. However, four months into living on my own, I found myself yearning for home.

But now, I know that what is more important than being a good writer is to just be real. This is my mind and life: choppy, raw, inundated with detours and frolics, laughter and tears.

Sometimes we feel like we're stuck in a rut. A great way to get out of that is by starting something new in which you can unleash some creative expression!

I’ve always been struck by how odd language is — how meaningless combinations of speech sounds can be strung together in meaningful ways to somehow create an infinite possibility of phrases.

Of all of the problems I expected I would encounter in the present, the “grammar police” have not turned out to be one of them.