What foods would you like to make?
I’m not much of a cook. As much as I like food, I hate cooking it. My meals are incredibly simple and quick. I find if I keep it easy, I won’t eat out as much. For awhile I was ordering Hello Fresh and it would get to dinner time and making the meal would feel like too much work. So I’d inevitably throw out several Hello Fresh kits a week and order takeout. So I quit that service and made meals 5 minutes or less of prep and 15 minutes or less of cooking and now I’m eating out much less and saving a lot of money (Hello Fresh wasn’t cheap and the takeout on top of the meal kits added up to a lot).
My panic attacks have improved a lot. I’m getting fewer and they are less intense. My anxiety was high last week but has been better this week. I’ve also been losing weight finally. I have a long way to go to achieve my New Year’s Resolution, but I still have 5 months and the rest of July, which should be sufficient to reach my goal weight.
My poetry book is coming along so that’s another New Year’s Resolution in progress. I’m trying to write every single day. I haven’t been publishing my work on this blog recently because a lot of the quarterlies I apply to don’t allow work to be previously published, even on personal blogs or Instagram. So far I have about 60 pages and next year I plan to start illustrations. In the meantime I’ll try to get myself into as many literary quarterlies as I can.
I’ve been trying to learn anatomy lately. It’s my goal to get through three books of drawing by January and master the human figure as best I can. That will prepare me for illustrating my book. For the illustrations I plan to do 100 self portraits. The book will be called All The Birds Are Screaming: 100 Poems and 100 Self Portraits by Mary Coleman. All the drawings will be black and white and miniature in format. Illustrations are a project for next year though. I may change my mind on what I want to do between now and then. It’s good to have a rough sort of idea of where I’m headed though, something to work towards.
The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman 
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