by Jocosa Wade | Apr 30, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life
In my family, the changing of the wall calendar was a ritual. Every December, my mother hunted for the perfect replacement calendar for the upcoming year. Prior to the New Year’s Eve’s midnight feast, she’d set aside at least an hour to transfer the notable...
by Jocosa Wade | Apr 22, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life
Part of me doesn’t want to write this post— because like sands through the hourglass, so are the days to my revision deadline. Four weeks gone. Thirteen weeks to go. Why did I take time to look that up? I need to keep my head down, social media locked away, and...
by Jocosa Wade | Apr 15, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life
I’m not writing about writing today because my sister is on my mind. So, here’s a blast from the past. My mother and I stood before the vanity mirror in the bathroom dressed in black. It wasn’t a stretch for me, ninety-nine percent of my wardrobe was black; this was...
by Jocosa Wade | Apr 8, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life
If you time traveled back— that’s what fifty years requires; it’s no longer just a memory— and popped into my junior high, the song on everyone’s lips was Gimme Dat Ding by The Pipkins. It was a short-lived hit. There was no hope for it to be anything else up...
by Jocosa Wade | Apr 1, 2020 | Inspiration, Memoir, Snow Queen, Writers life
Remember the memoir?— I’m Not Nora Ephron, But I Might Be Virginia Woolf and Other Mortifying Tales of Writing. If not, you can get caught up by reading I’m Not Nora Ephron- Part 1 & Part 2, and then, come back. Please. It is my fondest wish— this desire for your...