The Joy of Failure!

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...

Boot Camp

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...

Shifting the Universe

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...

Summer Books to Love

Summer is coming! This fact alone is enough to make me happy.  But add to it the great books I can read this summer, and I’m about to do backflips!  (except that I have no idea how. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to!) I’ve been...

How I Should Have Known

I’m in a position to begin dating again, if I chose.  (AAUUGGHH!!!  Gasp.  Cough.  Try to breathe.) But I’m not dating.  (woah! huge understatement!  I don’t even want to THINK about it.)   Self talk– calm...