V In Everything

Category: determination

  • I Can Do Hard Things

    I think I had another epiphany just now and I love those moments! I had an interview with a recruiter that reached out to me, which is great timing given that I’ve been laid off last week. The interview went great and I think I’m perfect for the job, but the next step is the…

  • The Work Is Not Done Until It’s Out in Public

    I’ve been thinking about all of my unfinished projects lately. They’ve been weighing on me for many years now. For some, I’ve been able to let go, for others they are still sitting there waiting for me to finish them. I find that this is also the case for projects that I have finished making…

  • Keep Going

    The kids have been needing me a lot more in the evenings and throughout the night lately, which has left me with no time or energy to work on my creative pursuits. In looking at my thorough documenting of my writing every day, I decided to come up with a system to keep track of…

  • All the World’s a Stage… and I’m a Player, Babey

    Shakespeare’s famous quote came to mind today as I thought about impostor syndrome in tech. Specifically, I was thinking about my own impostor syndrome working in tech, but the writing on the wall of my current company has made me anguish and become very blasé. As one famous tumblr user put it, I’m going to…

  • Tiny Measures

    I’ve perhaps already written about this. If not on this blog then certainly on tumblr. On the night of January 17, 2024 I read a post on tumblr about some award winning author who writes something like 200 words a day. He is a writer as his primary occupation so the limit is not due…

  • TOO MUCH STUFF

    When my mother worked as a full time artist making art dolls she collected a bunch of fabric, beads, and bits and bobs. When the market for that completely died, she offered me all her stuff. The only things I didn’t take were most of her tools and her clay but I did take all…

  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like… the Suburbs?

    I live in the suburbs. I love living in the suburbs. I like that I can raise my family in a relatively safe place, where I can give my small children relative autonomy, can be close to nature, and still be close to shops and cultural institutions and events. But I hate the cars. I…

  • On Being Unteachable

    I often feel as though I am unteachable when it comes to art. I am often so impatient that I just want to start doing the thing and make mistakes (that were entirely avoidable) but at least I’d be doing something! I can figure out or research how to fix those mistakes in the future,…

  • Coming out of Hibernation

    So it’s probably been clear from my radio silence that I’ve been experiencing some burnout. Part of the reason I wanted to do this blog in the first place was to record all my efforts at doing stuff because I have cycles that I go through, namely: get really passionate about something -> focus all…