What’s this? I’m trying to blog once a day for 50 days! Inspired by Forking Mad and Lou Plummer.

Oh no! I was on a short trip for two days, returned yesterday, and I’m catching up today. Whoops!

How do you feel about writing? Is it often cathartic, fun, a chore?

It can be cathartic, but it is more often a chore. Once upon a time, it was something I wanted to get in to. These days, I can occasionally reach a “flow state” when I start writing something, but more often than not, I just skip it.

What do you like to read? Books, newsletters, doomscrolling, blogs, paper magazines?

I wish the answer wasn’t “doomscrolling” but it is honestly probably my top category… in general though, I a “read” around 30 books a year (which is not a brag. Trust me, I’m married to a librarian, and that’s a low number) and I say “read” because I listen to audiobooks. Frankly, I do consider that to be reading although that is controversial among some people. To anyone that devalues that in favor of “the feeling of reading a real book” - how many books have you read this year? (If you read on an e-reader, my question stands, but I know your number is likely higher than mine!)

What is the most scared you have ever been? Can you write about it? (Don’t dig up trauma for a blog post)

Yes! But I will preface with the fact that I am often in a fear-state because I am a high-strung person. I wish it weren’t the case, and I’ve mostly gotten it under control in the past few years, but there it is.

That said, I was in an elevator that dropped eleven floors, not all at once, but a little at a time, with six or seven other people in it at the same time. Once it reached the basement, the doors still didn’t open, and we continued our drop-and-rise-and-drop-and-rise all the way up to the eleventh floor again where the crowd tumbled out. I really thought that might be it - it was awful. Unfortunately, the elevator happens to be in the building where I (still) live, and having to ride the elevators regularly does not help my aforementioned general tension.