Writers ever feel this way? I do.Readers, could you substitute read for write? I could.AndI am not an anxious person- At. All.Reassessing my priorities happens every few years and this is the time I feel I should do that. First, I review, assess, adjust, and then march onward. I’m in the review stage now.Am I the only one? Bet not.

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" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor..." data-large-file="https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor..." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4351" src="https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor..." alt="Man Writing Letter and Woman" srcset="https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor... 1300w, https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor... 150w, https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor... 300w, https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor... 768w, https://alyssabaileyromance.files.wor... 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px" />True story. I was raising a house full of children, ours and others’, had moved out of state and moved back, held a part time then full time job and got my bachelor then master degree.All these events were simultaneous and consecutive… I was much younger… Obviously.But I had not read for pleasure in almost seven years. I have always been the read a book a day or more when I could, type of person.Anyway, I picked up my first book in all those years and inhaled it. That was 12 yrs ago, and I have been happy ever since.I had a dry spell with writing during the same time period only I did occasionally put down a line or two only nothing more than that because, yeah, University.Then I started writing and I couldn’t stop. I read, I wrote, I still worked and did my life, but this became what I made time to do just for me.What do you give time for? Reading, Writing, drawing, photography, gardening, snorkeling? Whatever you do for yourself, don’t forget to do them . Or like a love that you didn’t nourish, it will fall away and your life will be less fulfilled, less enriched, and it will be one of your regrets. Don’t do that. Find that personal love and embrace it.Check out my newsletter for what I’m doing, reading, recommending, sharing … enjoying. Share back with me your life. Adventures shared…