I Miss My Medium Friends

Are any of you still here?

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My draft folder is a collection of two-sentence articles where I attempt to tell you all how much I miss it here. I’ve been doing it for months now, and I have no clue what keeps stopping me from just hitting that publish button. Mostly, I think it’s because I’m a little rusty and scared of the changes I haven’t been around to witness.

There’s the fear of being forgotten as this platform moves fast. I know how this thing works. People move on. New people join. If you’re not posting, you’re left behind.

Kendra Sparkles who?

And I get it! But I’ve been thinking about what a special part of my life Medium has been. It’s been a place of respite on days when I wasn’t doing so well and a place of encouragement when I needed that extra push.

You have all been on my mind lately. So, here I am checking in and letting you know I miss you.

Everything and nothing has been happening for me in the past six months. I was so determined to finish my novel but editing has been painfully slow. Much slower than I’d anticipated.

Life, on the other hand, has been moving blink-and-you’ll-miss-it fast. It’s an odd thing to me that at 37 years old I finally, finally have some clarity as to who I am. It’s like a dam burst and…