Don’t get me wrong. I love writing. It’s just that it’s a
job. Granted, it’s one that I love to do , but it’s still a job, especially
when you have deadlines. Everyone who knows me is aware that I am
struggling with the deadline for CHICKEN CACCHIA-KILLER. The words just aren’t
flowing like they should, and I’m getting pretty nervous about it.
BEEF STOLEN-OFF released on July 3rd and I’ve
been spending a lot of time promoting it with a modified blog tour and book signings.
I’ve made the commitment to record LIVER LET DIE for the blind and handicapped,
never dreaming I would be in a sound booth doing all the editing myself. I
assumed it would take a month tops, but I now know I will be lucky to get it
done in 6 months. I am going on a vacation with my family for a week at the end
of July, and I will be babysitting my two granddaughters (15 months and 3) for
10 days at the beginning of August.
Truly, I should be writing now. But when my sisters and my nieces
decided to come for a visit, I never even hesitated. I love my family and have
so much fun with my sisters. This year was a little different, though. One of
my nieces who works in retail and never gets much time off decided to come this
year. This is really special to me, since she is the one who lost her 27 year
old daughter to a pulmonary embolism a few weeks after knee surgery three
months ago. The night before I was scheduled to fly out of Dallas for the funeral, we had a horrible
tornado come through that did a lot of damage to over fifty airplanes. Most of
the flights were cancelled, and I found myself at the airport waiting until I
finally decided I couldn’t get there in time and went home heartbroken.
So, seeing my niece was special to me. She’s still very much
in the throes of grief as you can imagine and she can’t understand why God
would take her only child—a child, I might add, who was such a good kid and
just starting her life after college. I wonder about that, too.
She leaves tomorrow to go back home, but I think the visit
was good for her. We did a lot of laughing, a lot of crying, and a lot of
eating comfort foods. My heart aches for her, but all I can do is to keep praying
that God will give her the strength to make it one day at a time.
I should be writing, but some things are way more important.
Loving my family and friends and being there when they need me is at the top of
that list. So, I don’t feel the least bit guilty about not writing this week or
either of the two weeks coming up when I will be spending time with my family.
What about you? What are you doing instead of writing?
1 comment:
Liz, you shouldn't feel guilty. Family comes first. My heart breaks for your niece too, but we have to go on. Enjoy your family and vacation and the words will come when you're staring at the clock ticking on the wall. :)
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