"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
Ernest Hemingway
Bleeding is my blogging style.
I took this photo in Ernest Hemingway's writing studio, last year in Key West. |
My adoptee and first
mom blogger friends are amazing. Some of them, like Susan Perry, write
about adoptee rights and they blow people away with their knowledge
of statistics and laws.
Some, like Amanda Woolston, testify brilliantly before congress, and then write about it.
Others like Laura Dennis, write from a mental health perspective and can deliver compelling posts featuring case studies, therapist interviews and the like.
Some, like Amanda Woolston, testify brilliantly before congress, and then write about it.
Others like Laura Dennis, write from a mental health perspective and can deliver compelling posts featuring case studies, therapist interviews and the like.
Me? I emotionally bleed.
All over the laptop.
And I invite you to watch me bleed. My writings are a journey of wanting you to be able to taste the coffee I'm drinking and walk down the hallway with me where I'm rounding the corner, and feel the tear as it runs down my cheek and into my ear as I lay in bed at night.
Most of all, I want people to know they aren't alone.
And, they can make it.
Recently I told an adoptee friend, “It appears God lets me bleed to the edge of death and back so I can show other people how to do it and survive.”
So today, I’m quite literally and not just figuratively bleeding.No, it's not that time of the month.
All over the laptop.
And I invite you to watch me bleed. My writings are a journey of wanting you to be able to taste the coffee I'm drinking and walk down the hallway with me where I'm rounding the corner, and feel the tear as it runs down my cheek and into my ear as I lay in bed at night.
Most of all, I want people to know they aren't alone.
And, they can make it.
Recently I told an adoptee friend, “It appears God lets me bleed to the edge of death and back so I can show other people how to do it and survive.”
So today, I’m quite literally and not just figuratively bleeding.