Leigh Landry

Many Decembers ago, I started picking a word for the year ahead instead of making resolutions. I'm pretty goal oriented, but I enjoyed setting a single word or phrase as a guiding intention for the year. It's easy to hold that as a feeling or value I want to hold tightly and help make decisions through the upcoming months. Then I hit The Spring of 2018. Phew. Let's just say it's been a ride since then, ok? Coming out of that now, my decision-making process is shaky, and I feel like I've hit a lot of transitions on a lot of different fronts in my life. Every month, every week, every DAY brought new challenges, and I was exhausted and ill-equipped to roll with the changes. So I went back to what I knew. I picked a word, not for the year, but for the week. I started with Breathe , because yes, I needed to get that fucking basic. And it helped. That week, I focused on my breath. I would breathe through rough moments. I took deep breaths before I had to make decision...

Happy New Year!!! This is my favorite time of year. A fresh slate. New goals to break down. Chilly nights snuggled up with my dreams and my planner. <3 Last year was filled with a lot of personal ups and downs, but I kept my head down and made a good bit of professional headway. One of the biggest leaps I made was starting a new series and releasing  my debut novella ! We also added a new guy to our household: Vader & Meelo The new guy is the one on the right, and he's made himself quite at home already. I'll probably do a separate post on how he's fitting in later this month. Goals for 2018 In the year ahead, I plan to finish my Cajun Two-Step  series and write a few short stories set in that same world. I'm already working on one of those, a prequel story involving the main character of book two. I'd also like to get back to working on the mystery romance series I started and put aside for a while. I probably won't be publishing the f...