December 2011
29 posts
starving writer
Editor Jim Dodson of the PineStraw Magazine, a publication in my hometown, has asked me to write an article for the new year on my so-far trials as a college grad. Not only am I excited to cozy up in coffee shops again, banging away at the keys, and sketching random notes on various pieces of paper, but I’m excited to get paid!—can I hear an AMEN!?
Jim wants me to write a comical...
keep in touch
So according to Google Analytics there are now several hundred of you all over the country, and even the world, following Plum Nellie. First let me say: I am incredibly thankful and blessed that so many of you would tune-in to read my personal, crazy, sometimes ridiculous stories, poems, and just need-to-get-this-off-my-chest ramblings. I started this blog years ago because I so wanted, needed a...
November 2011
31 posts
"I wanna dance like this again"
Just another day on the hunt: emails and resumes and phone calls and Google search and grad school applications and so on and so on. Sitting at our dining room table, bogged down with worry and a broken spirit, I heard a voice inside my head say, You’re gonna dance again one day, soon. And just the thought of me dancing around our living room so excited that I had finally landed a stable job...
and then came dancing...
If you follow me on Twitter then you got an up-close and personal timeline of my family’s craziness last night. But if you don’t, or are just eager for more insanity—keep scrolling!
*Disclaimer: Very little alcohol was absorbed in the making of this dance party…this is just the way my family rocks out…all the time.
So a night out at A Splash of Thai, which was epic...
