I haven’t been sleeping well. I’m having nightmares. I’m waking at 2:00 and 3:00 AM, unable to go back to sleep. I am worrying. I feel I shouldn’t be. But I am. The lack of sleep doesn’t help my worrying, it exacerbates it. There are a couple of things going on that are causing this. I am not managing the work/writing balance. I need to work. I don’t have a choice. I also like what I do. So there’s that. And I need to figure out how to balance work better.
Then there’s this… my writing, this blog and autism. Specifically my growing discomfort in writing about Emma, without Emma. More and more I try to keep my writing about my own issues and how they weigh on my responses and reactions, but even so, I end up writing about her. I asked Emma the other day, “Hey Em. Does…
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reflections of a writer 