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Sometimes the Best Ideas Come at the Last Minute.I wasn’t planning on doing any big teaching event this year. I worked hard in 2016 launching my new website and promoting my writing and homeschool classes. I made new friends, taught awesome students, and had some success. I gave it my all, and it just wasn’t enough to make…
Life Redefined and Project Possibility
New beginnings. That’s where I’m at in my life and career. I’m rethinking the old and realizing the past does not define who I am. All my past failures, mistakes, mishaps don’t matter. They’re in the past. All I have is now, and what I do NOW will determine my future. So I choose to…
Reflections on my BirthEve: A Year From Today Will Be My Past
The last few years have been filled with pain, letting go, and healing. But nothing has been more freeing than the last tumultuous year. On my birthEve, I wanted to reflect on my growth and share some of the important lessons I’ve learned. In no particular order: Trust your gut; sometimes first impressions are dead…
The Divorce I Never Saw Coming…
Taken from my Facebook profile: October 18, 2016 This is not an easy post to write, since I kept things private for so long, but I felt I needed to be authentic and vulnerable since you, my friends, have seen my ups and downs on Facebook, and might have wondered why. You encouraged me with…
I Hear Voices
Too many voices tell me what to do. How to act. Who to be. I am overwhelmed. “That’s not good enough.” “Who do you think you are?” “No one cares about you.” “No one wants you.” Soon the voices become my own , and I’m not sure what is the truth and what is the…
Teen Writers Publish Podcast – For Teens and Writers Who Write for Teens
Those of you who listen to the Teen Writers Publish! podcast will be happy to hear that we’re pushing forward with a new season. Ron and I have been discussing whether or not we should continue. He took a new job, I’m looking for a full-time job. He got signed with a literary agent for…
Where is the Nostalgia for My Past?
Sometimes I take a look back over my shoulder and wait for nostalgia, for some emotion to rise. I see things that have changed in my life and things that have not changed for others who are in, or were in my life. I think about my past. Things I used to have like the…
Discover Your Temperament and Be Yourself
This summer I had the privilege of teaching my “Discover Your Temperament” classes to an inquisitive Beaver who always had to know what was happening next, an adorable Otter who always wanted to do what was next, and a Dog who at first I thought was a Lion. These three K-2nd graders stole my heart…
Successful Writer Conference: September 23 -24th
National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner, and I’m excited to bring you new videos, webinars, and blog posts to help you prep and be a successful writer in November. I’m also planning a NaNoWriMor retreat so stay tuned and email me for more details in you’re interested.
Release the Memoir in You!
How to find your life’s theme and write your memoir because you have a story that must be told! You have a story inside of you dying to get out – a dream to impact the world with the lessons you’ve learned – but you’re not sure anyone would want to read it, and you…