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Tag: covid
Laughter, Memories, and Aperol Spritz
This past weekend, I finally had the chance to meet with three high school friends for a getaway in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. We’ve been attempting to plan this trip since 2019 with our original date and location being October 2020 in Montreal. Suffice it to say, everyone knows what happened in 2020 and so [...]
2022 Wrap Up
Hi, friends! I hope you've all had a wonderful 2022 and that you're anticipating 2023 with high hopes. I've been working hard this year and I look forward to continuing on my writing journey throughout the next year. I can't wait to share with you the YA fantasy that's on its way next year, but [...]
Never Surrender
It's been a few months since I last blogged. Bet you all thought I was done with this writing thing, huh? The truth of the matter is that I've had both nothing and everything to blog about, which leads me to...avoid blogging altogether. I wanted to craft a post on how miserable catching Covid was [...]
Dropping the Ball
A parent's job is never done. There's always appointments and therapy and lessons and endless testing and school projects to keep track of. By the end of May, most parents (and teachers, really) are ready to collapse in a heap of exhaustion. Myself, included. Amidst the current Covid spike, there are also a handful of [...]
The Train
I wrote this essay months ago, just as schools across the country opened amidst a worldwide pandemic, and we faced yet another unique set of challenges in the Storms household. Months later, as 2021 comes to a close and the schools plan to open on schedule starting January 3, 2022 regardless of the dramatic spike [...]
2021 Wrap Up
Every year I do a quick summary of what I've accomplished in my writing career and sometimes what I've accomplished in life. It's a great way to look back and realize I actually *have* been pretty busy, no, I *wasn't* slacking as much as I thought, and hey, this year wasn't so bad. (Covid and [...]
Mom’s Not Here
I'm tempted to leave the title and the title alone here in this blog post. Because damn. I am tired. I worked eighteen hours this week on a job that's supposed to take up no more than ten. And I did it all from home while supervising-slash-teaching my 11-year-old her ratios and fractions and comparisons [...]
Belonging
We almost bought a brand new house today. Drove an hour and a half northeast and spent all day touring a beautiful, half-built, small mansion in a spacious 1-acre wooded lot in the Poconos. Then we deliberated long hours on whether it was right, where we'd put the garden, the pool, the chicken coop, and [...]
2020 Wrap Up
I shoot some stats just about every year, mostly to prove to myself that, yes, I *am* actually moving forward in this thing called a writing career. Given the craziness of 2020 all around, *I* wouldn't even blame me if I'd chosen to fall off the face of the earth, or hide under a blanket [...]
L. Ryan Storms 