Personal Yummy

Personal (adjective): 1) of, relating to, or affecting a particular person; 2) carried on between individuals directly.

Yummy (adjective): highly attractive, appealing, and pleasing.

Personal Yummy (noun): pursuits and delights that bring me joy and—by sharing them with you—will inspire you to try them out and experience them for yourself, so that you can be joyful too!

About a year ago (one year, two months, and twenty-nine days, to be exact), and after many months of battling it over in my mind, I left my corporate job as an editor in the marketing department of a financial services firm to focus on my passionate pursuits. These pursuits include, among many others, landing a job dancing in a Broadway show, finishing my collection of short stories, vignettes, and character sketches that I’ve been working on for years (off and on, whenever I’ve had the time), and getting the collection published.

These are big dreams, I know. Thus far, I’ve attended countless auditions, certainly learning a great deal about the procedure of auditioning and, most importantly, about how to handle rejection and how to keep going. Moreover, I’ve made significant progress on my story collection (relishing having entire days at a time to devote to working on it, which rarely occurred when I was working at my corporate job), and I am looking forward to submitting the polished draft to agents soon.

What has been best, though, about this upheaval of my schedule and my daily life (it has really surprised me, but I am still adjusting to the change of not having a job to go to every day) is that I have learned to savor the process of attaining my goals, instead of constantly being frustrated by it. When you’re focused on doing that, all of the beauty in so many things—major and minor—shows itself in abundance. And I plan, on these pages, to share that beauty with you.

So get ready for lots of insights and good stories, and a sense of wonder to permeate all you do.