Encouragement
Work Smart: Letter of Introduction
“Work smart” is a phrase we hear a lot, in both the business world and in life. I’m constantly looking for advice that will help me “work smarter” in my home and in my writing life. A couple of years ago, I saw a copy of a beautiful magazine that covered arts, travel, dining, and…
Annual Bad Poetry Contest
Ever get an itchin’ to write poetry, well now’s your chance and the best thing about it is it has to be bad. Just click on over to Chip MacGregor’s blog and leave your pathetic prose. Need some encouragement, here’s my attempt at bad poetry and the sad thing is it wasn’t that difficult to…
Capturing Your Memories in a Journal
As parents, we follow our kids around with cameras trying to record those happy moments of childhood. Snap! First tooth. Snap! First steps. The milestones show up in baby books and photo albums (or for those of you less organized, like me, they show up in shoeboxes, with good intentions!). Yet even more important than…
1670
No, not the year, the number of NEW words I’ve written today on my cozy mystery! The scenes just flowed. Of course, by the time edits come around it might be all garbage, but at least the juice is flowing. Too bad I had to get hungry and use the lady’s room. Who knows how…
Midweek Motivation
Start Your Day out Right Scripture and Short Devotion As for me, I shall call upon God, And the Lord will save me. Evening and morning and at noon, I will complain and murmur, And He will hear my voice. He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me, For they…
A Goal Attained
Saturday I accomplished a life-long goal. My husband and I joined more than 30,000 of our closest friends (not!) and ran the Indianapolis mini-marathon. It was an amazing accomplishment to run 13.1 miles. Especially considering three months ago I’d taken a break from running. I don’t think I fully understand what I learned through this…
Drowning in Feelings
There are times in this life that all of us get immersed in a swirl of feelings that are ridiculously hard to sort out. They race around the track of our mind, darting in and out of our consciousness, making us feel out-of-whack and losing control. Maybe the precipitating cause was something done to us.…
Spring into Summer Challenge Winner
Wow! I actually won something and what an honor it is to win this award because it’s for a specific blog post. You canread the post that won,and let me know your thoughts!
Donkey Trails
Our stray donkey, Flash, has a pretty good life here at our Barn House. No, he doesn’t get to come inside! But he does have free roam of the pastures and woods on the property. He has plenty to eat and plenty of time to contemplate. You could say he’s a Contemplative Donkey, but that…
Do You Want to Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name???
And they’re always glad I came!!! I’m making friends left and right! I’m telling you if you need a self-esteem boost, just join Shout Life, the Christian networking space. In just one day I’ve made of 34 “friends” and the requests keep coming, but don’t worry I’m not naive to know they all really want…