In My Brain Today: You are What you Eat…or Do
By Leslie Lindsay (image source: http://jenuinemarketing.com/2012/07/06/writing-tome/brain-cartoon/) You’ve heard this adage before: “You are what you eat.” (And if that were the case, I’d be a big ol’ hunk of pumpkin bread and veggie chips from Trader Joes). BUT have you heard this one: “You are what you do all day?” Ohhh…that’s a new one to you, too? I know the feeling. Just when I thought I’d heard it all… And so it got me thinking. I am what I do all day. I am. What. I do. All day. In that case, I am a cornucopia of people, careers, and ideas. Some may call that schizophrenic. (No comment, please). From mom to dog-mom and slave-to-my-family, to educator (“you make an ‘m’ like a camel…two big humps”) to housekeeper and post office girl, and friend, wife, sister, daughter, publicist, author, writer,…sigh…it’s down-right exhausting. And that really is really the tip-of-the-iceburg. I want to be a writer who moms, not a mom who writes. I want to be the size I was when I graduated college again. You, too?! …
Leslie A. Lindsay| Writer & Creative 