What Other People Are Passionate About

Daughter Kathleen is a legitimate writer. She writes a much-read and loved blog. It's funny, poignant, domestic, personal, opinionated, and oh-so-fun to read. She also publishes a weekly newsletter, only I know it's not called a newsletter. Oh, and it's not technically weekly, it's weekly-ish. Most recently, she's become a regular contributor to a book review blog called, Literary Quicksand.

Ok. I admit it. I am jealous but I am mostly inspired.

I am inspired by her commitment to writing even though she has a full-time teaching job, is a full-time mom of two boys, a full-time wife, and runs, plays golf, walks the dog, and reads more than 52 books a year. How does she do all this and write? (She even has two novels in the works!) I have no excuse. I have wanted to "strike my note" on the page my entire life.

I do a lot of writing for my living, but not writing what I want to write. I write speeches, video scripts, copy, and content for all sorts of marketing communications. After about 35 years of this, I definitely know what I'm doing. The work is sometimes about ideas and the writing is sometimes pretty good, but I write about what other people are passionate about.

Let's do something about that, shall we? We shall.