December 4, 2014 / Maisie Smith
Dear Josie, I can’t sleep. Our last conversation, the one about the negative review, keeps clinking around in my pinball machine brain. So here I am, writing this to you at 2:45 a.m. Haters. You just got your first. Congratulations! There’s a quote I have at my desk that reads “There is nothing harder than […]
read full articleNovember 20, 2014 / Maisie Smith
“Keep.” “Keep.” “Keep.” I was rifling through the kitchen pantry, classifying an overwhelming collection of non-perishables into one of two categories. “Hmmmmm. Pickled beets.” Slight pause. “Give.” And I placed the can on the dining room table. Spaghetti-o’s that were just a tad (3 months) past the expiration date. “Give.” A bottle of hot sauce […]
read full articleNovember 6, 2014 / Maisie Smith
I’ve been listening to the soundtrack from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ for a solid week. On repeat. Sweeping, epic music has a way of getting me dialed into my work. I’ll write for a bit and then inevitably get caught up in thinking about Frodo’s quest… not so much about the perils along the […]
read full articleOctober 30, 2014 / Maisie Smith
Dear Josie, I’ve been thinking about our conversation the other day, the one about how you weren’t sure if the world was ready for you. The earnestness that shone through your eyes has hogged my thoughts since we had that cup of coffee. I keep going back to an experience from high school that changed […]
read full articleOctober 16, 2014 / Maisie Smith
“Was Hamlet Really Insane?” I scribbled as a title. I then tore the five handwritten pages from my spiral notebook, stapled the essay together and handed it to my 11th grade English teacher as I walked out the door. I had written it the night before and couldn’t think of a good title until the […]
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