Writing | Accountability
If Busyness Distracts, Then Accountability Attracts
Your nonjudgmental partner awaits your next check-in. Don’t leave them hanging.
Yesterday was the birthday of my dear friend EP.
EP was my first reader.
I credit her with helping me finish my first novel.
EP and I found each other by accident or divine intervention.
Here’s the short story:
Many years ago, when my husband and I operated a drapery workroom in the barn behind our house, I desperately needed help. We had already hired several people that we found by placing ads in the newspaper’s local ‘help wanted’ section.
First, there was French Pat- who immigrated from France and had experience working in the Ethan Allen Furniture Store’s workroom.
French Pat had the work ethic of a machine- and the bladder to match. At the time, we did not have a restroom in the barn and instead had to go into our house, which she never did! Remarkable!!).
Then, we found Jackie, a young mother of two who suffered from burnout from her regular job as an operating room nurse.
