anxiety – Mindy Quigley

Don’t hold your breath.

A few weeks ago, I lost the ability to breathe. Usually, I think about breathing about as often as I think about making my hair grow or making my blood circulate through my body. Which is to say, never. Breathing is supposed to be part of a body’s standard operating system. Like how when youContinue reading “Don’t hold your breath.”

Is writer’s block real?

I was tempted to make this a one-word post. That word? Nope. But on further consideration, that nope might need a little bit of explanation. Writer’s block is, after all, so enmeshed in the popular imagination that even my 7-year-old has claimed to suffer from it. I have never believed in it myself. Sure, thereContinue reading “Is writer’s block real?”