About Emily

Dear Reader,

Hello. I'm a writer. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I'm a thinker, and I like to write my thoughts down. Sometimes I think up stories; you may see some of those pop up here. Sometimes I think up poems, and I write those down, too: I already have a lot of those on the blog. And sometimes my thoughts are, well, just thoughts. Not stories, not poems, just thoughts. And I put those on here as well.

You'll notice that there was a long hiatus on this blog between 2016 and 2018. That's because I was emotionally and mentally preoccupied during that time. First of all, as you can see from the last post before the hiatus, I got married. Jon kind of absorbed all of my thoughts for a while. Then I got a job. I didn't have much capacity for writing after that. Then I had a baby, and I was fully occupied by keeping her (not to mention Jon and myself) alive and well. Now here we are, and here I am, on the other side of all that. My full-time job is now staying home with my baby. It's a hard job, but it's not as mentally demanding as the work I had before I had the baby. So now I find myself willing and able to write again.

I write on this blog because I want to connect with people. It's not enough to write out my thoughts in a journal, as edifying as that is for me. I want to inspire others, and be inspired. I want to see and be seen, love and be loved. Rapunzel wasn't meant to be locked up in a tower: no one is. We all have a responsibility to climb down from our tower and step into the world. This blog is how I do that.

So thank you, reader, for coming down from your tower to connect with me here. I hope you enjoy your visit into The Life and Times of Emily.