This is Your Strange and Beautiful Life—Update

 Dearest Friends and Fans,

My goodness, hasn’t it been a wild ride? I sort of wish I could say that The Prize is the Rest of Your Life concluded my one-way epistles to Vincent; however, I definitely cannot say this. In the year or so that followed this last post, I probably doubled my word count to Vincent. Also, I landed a surprise grown-up translation job at a downtown penthouse office. Also, my darling and honorary brother Glendon left this world. Also, my Beautiful Miracle Apartment burned down. Also, there was a global pandemic—maybe you heard about it.

This is your strange and beautiful life. You can do all sorts of interesting shit. But you don't have to. Your life does not have to be a spectacular TED talk.

The good news is, your life does not have to be a spectacular TED talk. I’ll skip the everything happens for a reason junk, but I will say that the last few years have felt very real, and I have felt very alive. I am now ten drafts into a manuscript for a novel called Dear Alex, Love Ramona. Guess what that’s about? I have a new beautiful miracle apartment I call, The Magical Treehouse Palace. The pandemic came with a few hard lessons, but I came out with renewed love for my golden group of darling besties. And I learned how to use an em dash. And play amateur ukulele. Even my cooking skills improved, though guests have been known to find twist ties and price tags in their mugs of soup and slices of quiche. 

Otherwise, everything is reasonable to fabulous. I am crawling out of this blogging hiatus to announce that, I just launched a brand-new, homemade website, ericajschmidt.com. I wanted a place to share the large handful of essays I wrote this spring. Plus, I am hoping to break out into the publishing world, and I figure it will not hurt my cause to build up an audience of 77 to 77,777 followers.

If you’d like to be part of this audience, I’d be so thankful and delighted. Feel free to follow me on Facebook or Instagram. To subscribe to my newsletter, message me your email or fill out a contact form on my new website. Or, just check in for new posts at ericajschmidt.com/blog whenever you think of it.

Thank you so much for your readership and support over the years. It means everything. Would be a dream to see you in the neighbourhood, or on the interwebs. Either way, may the rest of your life bring all your favourite prizes.

Love always, Erica