Daily Grind
Organizing Back to School Schedules
I can’t remember a summer day UNDER 100 degrees! Or a summer day with a good soaking rain, until about two days ago. Whether it was the grace of God, or the weather sensing we needed a little help with our back to school schedules, I woke to a cool 77 degrees after a thunderstorm…
Balancing Your To Do List with Summer Fun
It’s Friday, again! Where has the week gone? Vanished, along with all my grand plans of productivity. Last summer I went off on a three week amazing adventure and accomplished little in my home. This summer I vowed to check off several projects. But I’m finding that these projects are way too big to be…
Embrace the Detour
Sometimes detours are good. Sometimes they’re frustrating. But however you view your particular detour or “interruption” on the path to your dreams, one thing is certain! You will have detours. Might as well learn how to embrace them instead of fight them! The key to surviving and maintaining a good attitude through it all is…
The Cost of Following Your Dreams
Gas to drive boys to Disney audition: $120 Hotel where I got NO sleep the night before audition: $91 plus tax Driving around an hour looking for a hotel because sons made Disney call backs: PRICELESS What have YOU been up to this week?
Follow Your Own Path
It’s hard not to compare ourselves with others. Even Christians have trouble with envy and jealousy and often wonder why one is more deserving of the other. “Why are they blessed financially while we struggle?” “Why did she get a contract before me while I’ve been trying longer?” “Why is my marriage a wreck when…
A Lesson in Editing and a Disappearing Trick
I can’t believe it’s been five months since I signed my contract and attempted to cut 35,000 words off my WIP. I’ve painfully and faithfully cut 30,000 words and have the last 5,000 to go. Cutting any WIP down has been a challenge. First, I snipped the obvious. Overused words, expression, those darn passive verbs.…
Writer…Interrupted: Field Trips, Awards and Opening Night, Oh My!
The life of a writer…interrupted is filled with distractions, but this month they’re all good! My 8th grader’s 3 man team won the State Latin II Certamen (quiz bowl) AGAIN!! He also got Summa Cum Laude in the National Latin Exam for Latin II and came in first in state in the Sight Reading competition…
Is Balancing Your Life Possible?
Reposted from 2009 I started blogging to try to find the balance between raising my family and working on my writing career. I interviewed close to a hundred moms and dads who seemed to have found that balance. Three years later I AM still searching for that balance. I’m starting to think balance is the…
Seasons of Writing and Waiting
In January, I was all set to dive into my WIP. I had just put my daughter in school full time, and I had my days mapped out by the hour. Then “I got the call.” The novella I submitted to Barbour for an anthology the week before was sold! After the shock registered, I…
It Slipped My Mind…
I had a really great post thought while driving today from school to home, or was it from home back to school. Of course, it could have been between one of my many errands, but the point is, it WAS A REALLY GOOD THOUGHT! I know I haven’t been blogging in a while, but I’m…