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Catching my breath

A blogging experiment

I'm a novelist, an IT professional, a kickboxer, a gamer, a reader, and on and on and...

Ultimately, a woman with too much on her mind. So it looks like I'm going to start writing those thoughts in a blog. All because I'm a writer and writing is how I make sense of it all. And because I'm a millennial, it looks like I'm posting it all on the Internet for the world to see.

29 things I hope to learn in the next 29 years

Like I mentioned last week, as I turn 29 this month, there has been so much I’ve learned in my 29 years. But there is so much left for me...

Amy Rohozen

Nov 19, 20222 min read

How to take a day off (actually, can you tell me? I’m bad at it)

Vacation…ah, vacation. A magical word. Whether we’re talking Summer Vacation or Spring Break or just dropping a vacation on a random...

Amy Rohozen

Aug 6, 20224 min read

The whole “former gifted kid burnout” is real. But I don’t regret it.

Have you ever read confessions of “former gifted kids?” When I write it like that, all it evokes in me is the concept of “former child...

Amy Rohozen

Mar 12, 20228 min read

It feels almost tacky to talk about the “good things” that came out of a global pandemic.

And truly, it’s no wonder. Have you seen the way the world has been devastated by COVID-19? If I tried to list all the bad things that...

Amy Rohozen

Feb 12, 202210 min read

One of the hardest things I still have to learn is how to be unproductive.

Screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons as captured in tweet from @_baomii I like to think of myself as “productive girl...

Amy Rohozen

Jan 22, 20227 min read

If you want people to take your hobby seriously, treat it like a job. And then, you can hate it.

While I love to schedule activities, set goals, make long lists of accomplishments no matter how small, the one thing I’ve learned about...

Amy Rohozen

Jan 8, 20227 min read

Is it normal, on New Year’s Eve, to look forward to a new year of resolutions as opposed to a kiss?

Don’t get me wrong: I have never been one to think of a new year in terms of “new year, new me.” I realize the turn of a calendar page...

Amy Rohozen

Dec 25, 20216 min read

It's the age-old story of love and hate and checklists.

I used to live and die by the agendas they provided us in grade school. Perhaps you remember those I mean. The size of a notebook,...

Amy Rohozen

Dec 18, 20215 min read

Spoiler alert: Living through a pandemic sucks if your entire self-worth is fueled by productivity.

For a moment, let’s skip right around the fact that a mindset where your self-worth is fueled by how much you produce does not come...

Amy Rohozen

Nov 27, 20217 min read