Not long after I moved into my house in Virginia, a woman from church stopped by. I was scrubbing my walls with a washcloth. The house had been in good shape when I’d walked through several months earlier on my quick house-hunting trip. Since...
I accepted a challenge today and thought you might like to join in! Let me tell you about it. We were talking about how our thoughts control our feelings and actions. For example, someone cuts you off in traffic and you can… Think about what an idiot...
Today I want to celebrate failure! I don’t mean like Calvin. I do love Calvin and Hobbes, but this isn’t quite what I’m talking about. A while ago I read the transcript of JK Rowling’s commencement address at Harvard in which she...
Several weeks ago I applied to a Writer’s Boot Camp- and was rejected. As part of the application process, they asked what college-level writing classes I’ve taken, and I answered that I’ve made up my own from the books I’ve studied. They...
I have been running like an insane person lately. (Perhaps this says something about me?) I have had busy times in my life before. But for me, working, going to school, being a single mom, homeschooling, painting sets, closing on a house and new legal...
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