Trying to recover from a trip with my kids to New York City.\u00a0 My very first time.\u00a0 We did mostly the the main tourist stuff, because that’s what my daughter wanted.\u00a0 I didn’t get much of the softer, artsy stuff.\u00a0 But still, it leached under my skin.\u00a0 The idea of an artist’s life has invaded.\u00a0 Yes. That is what I wanted and needed.\u00a0 I needed to see the way to living an artist’s way. Now, in my middle age.\u00a0 I’m not an artist with a day job.\u00a0 Or someone who gave up on their artist dream because of the practicalities of life.\u00a0 I never had a dream of being an artist.\u00a0 I just knew I need to write.\u00a0 But it took me 40 years to get to writing my first piece.\u00a0 It was just for the drawer.\u00a0 Now, some…. seven years later, I want to focus on my writing first. But i need to keep my career job still.\u00a0 And it is a career, so it needs certain maintenance.\u00a0 So it hasn’t felt like I have the room on my list of priorities for my writing work to be taken seriously.\u00a0 Now, I see a possibility.\u00a0 I just don’t know how yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trying to recover from a trip with my kids to New York City.\u00a0 My very first time.\u00a0 We did mostly the the main tourist stuff, because that’s what my daughter wanted.\u00a0 I didn’t get much of the softer, artsy stuff.\u00a0 But still, it leached under my skin.\u00a0 The idea of an artist’s life has invaded.\u00a0 Yes. That is what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}