“Don’t do so much,”
they say,
“You’re taking on too much—
take it easy,
relax.
You’re too busy
to add anything else.
Do less,
sleep more…
don’t push so hard.”
They mean well,
of course,
but to me
all this sounds
like a recipe
for dying.

“Don’t do so much,”
they say,
“You’re taking on too much—
take it easy,
relax.
You’re too busy
to add anything else.
Do less,
sleep more…
don’t push so hard.”
They mean well,
of course,
but to me
all this sounds
like a recipe
for dying.

This post made me laugh so hard I had to share it, and I also completely agree that being at home with the kids is a perfect setting for being a writer. Love it. Hope Kate makes you smile as she does me..
Disclaimer: I suspect this is going to be an insufferably self-indulgent and introspective post.
Suffer.
I love writing. I get such a rush from words tumbling out and jostling for position on the screen or in my ratty notebook. There is a delicious agony in searching for the right word or the perfect one-liner. I am filled with glee when I finish a piece and it’s done, it’s definitely done and I can totally publish it. And knowing that I have readers as lovely as you is pure bliss. I think I know now what I want to be when I grow up.
And here’s the funny part: I think that my job as a stay-at-home-mum fits perfectly with this plan.
I feel a little nervous saying this – in any other profession, it’s perfectly OK to say you love working and that your job is full of fun perks…
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