This year, for the very first time, I actually sat on a couch with the superbowl on a tv in front of it. I won’t say I watched it exactly but I did finish the first sleeve of this bolero I’m working on. The construction is a little..different, shall we say… and I’m not totally sure how it’s going to work, but I’m hopeful.
I’m now realizing how long it’s been since I’ve written anything on a regular basis, and it’s sort of depressing. I used to write constantly–I started keeping a journal around the time I was old enough to write. I called it my “Hannah Book” (Hannah was kind of my alter-ego…mostly I just liked the name Hannah more than I liked the name Toby). I remember exactly how it started: I’d had a nightmare one night and my mom suggested I write it down. So I did (complete with illustrations) and it evolved into a chapter book with exciting stories such as “Hannah’s Birthday,” “Hannah’s Nightmare,” “Hannah’s Lemonade Stand,” “Hannah Visits Her Grandparents,” etc. I still have it. Maybe one day I’ll scan it and you can all read it. Rebecca (one of my very best friends who happened to design this website AND my chandelier logo) even did some guest illustrations.
Anyway, the Hannah Book petered out around third grade and I started keeping a “real” journal (all I mean by “real” is that Hannah retired and I wrote about myself in the first person), which went on until college, at which point I became too busy to write anything except 20 page papers (and erotica, but that’s another story entirely). Still, I was writing, and at the time I graduated from college, I wanted to be a novelist.
Then I learned how to knit and I’ve written nary a word since then. I still think about writing a novel (nevermind the fact that my longest story ever is about 9 pages) but there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Sometimes even eating and sleeping fall by the wayside. Well, not so much sleeping, I do plenty of that.
What hobby (or career path) would YOU pursue if you had the time?
Nice to read your blog