This is a picture of my head.

Let me start with the easy part: 26 people are coming for Easter brunch. This will be fun and already is organized with my ‘race to Costco for food’ menu. I’ll take pictures for my cooking blog and post them on The Intimidated Cook. But the other part of life right now is filled with stress and seconding guessing and worry as well as love and adventure. All you can do is to take notes during these times in your life; the stories, memoir or fiction, that will come out of these notes won’t happen for a long time. I always tell my students this calmly – but actually I sound like a broken record and need to take my own advice.

I have my journal out on the top of my dresser and when I pass by I jot down whatever is going on. Late yesterday afternoon for instance I wrote “Couple are screwing in their car in the parking lot.” (I’m not kidding.)