4 Reasons Why I'm Behind On Writing

I promise I will have my shit together by October

Friends — and especially my financial supporters — I’m a little behind this month on…well…everything. It was the wrap-up of summer and boy did I pack it all in. I’ve failed to get so much writing to you this month that I understand if you’re second-guessing your decision to support me (but please don’t abandon me just yet!). I promise, I just need one more week and then I’ll be back in action.

You’re not the only one frustrated with me. Walgreens is threatening me with daily texts to pick up prescriptions I ordered a month ago. My car needs an oil change, which it reminds me of every day with an angry yellow flashing light. I finally slapped my registration sticker onto my license plate…a month late. I need to make dental appointments and also bloodwork appointments and probably get a few other body things checked out. I’m two months late on my B12 injections. I have texts that have been moldering, unread for weeks and those friends have likely assumed me dead (which would be reasonable). Checks have gone uncashed and will probably expire. My plants look a little worse for the wear. The same duffel bag has sat half-packed at the foot of my bed for the better part of a month, thrown in and out of my car for the last 25 days. And I’ve still got one more event this weekend to officially close out the season.

However, I can smell the slowdown coming. Cinnamon pinecones are blasting me with migraine-inducing fragrance at the sliding doors of every grocery store in town. Pumpkins are tumbling out of cardboard bins. The mornings are getting CRISP and I feel myself shifting into soup mode.

In just a week, I’ll be ready to stay local. Get cozy. And buckle down on my creative life.

Until then, here are a few sort of legitimate excuses for why I’ve been MIA for the last month.

1. Supporting Local Creatives When They Come To Grand Junction

   

   Gregory Alan Isakov came to Grand Junction in late August and he couldn’t stop gushing about how beautiful it was here. I sat on the lawn at Los Colonias Amphitheater by myself, sipping a hard iced tea, and feeling really cute in my new cowboy boots (which I ACTUALLY ride horses in, thank you very much), agreeing with him: I live in the most beautiful place on earth.
   

2. Biking 60 Miles & 8,000 Feet of Elevation Along Colorado’s Alpine Loop
   
   This took several days and a whole lotta gumption.

   

   

3. Riding Horses & Talking to God in the Desert
   
   I got to ride this good boy, Cowboy, into Canyon of the Ancients National Monument and then explore some of my friend’s backyard in Cortez while munching on some goodies of the fungal variety if you catch my drift.

   

   

4. Sitting In Hot Water For a Long While
   
   Finally, I bopped down to New Mexico to sit in some very lovely hot springs and rub mud all over my body, enjoy my fungal friends once more, contemplate what it would be like to come back in the next life as moss (spoiler: I had a vision that it would be awesome), and eat some extremely yummy scallops. Also, I soaked in an arsenic pool and lived.

   

   Anyway, between the planning, enjoyment, and recovery from all those trips and adventures, I’ve let my day-to-day life fall into complete disrepair (oh…did I mention I’ve held down my full-time job throughout all of that — the thing that funds my ability to bop all over the tri-state area for a month?). I’ve got a wedding to attend this weekend and then I’ll begin to right this ship.
   
   I hope you’ll soak in these last dregs of summer with me.