Giving the kids something to talk about in therapy.
"You're changing your name?" This was the big question today at our newspaper's features meeting when I announced that any future stories I wrote would be under my new last name. "I wouldn't do that, " one of the gals said, noting all the work I had done under my current last name. She mentioned... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the folks at NaNoWriMo (It's next month, are you ready?), I read this really great article where writers answered questions about their writing styles. I don't know about you, but this is something I wonder about all the time. Writing can be such a lonely way of living, the tendency to lock ourselves... Continue Reading →
This article appears in the Press Democrat on Friday, October 6, 2012. Last month I wrote about the importance of dating your spouse. Hopefully this resulted in some kid-free, uninterrupted conversation, and perhaps even a few steamy moments…. If not, let this serve as a note of inspiration to book a sitter for a much... Continue Reading →
This weekend I took DQ with me to the salon where we both could get our last haircut before the wedding. I love my new hairdresser. She remembers details told to her at previous appointments - like the fact the DQ has a new baby brother on her dad's side and that she was preparing... Continue Reading →
It's been 10 years today since my son Connor Marley was born to Heaven. Just a few days before this date 10 years ago, I had no idea what pain felt like. But on this day, I discovered firsthand what it's like to have your whole life change in the matter of an instant, and... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Gilbert gave a talk on the pressures writers and creatives put on themselves, as well as what they gather from expectations from the world. In today's theme of shitty first drafts, this was just the video I needed to view today. It's long, but well worth a 20 minute moment of inspiration, or at... Continue Reading →
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right,... Continue Reading →
This article will publish in the Press Democrat on Friday, September 21. In a few weeks I will be getting married to Mr. W. The last year of our engagement has passed rapidly, but the last few months have been a whirlwind as we’ve crossed things off our list of things to do before the... Continue Reading →
Despite the fact that I have written a few award winning blog entries, complete with gorgeous photo spreads and witty banter, in my mind... I have not been able to actually get them onto this blog for all of you to ooh and aah over. Besides, something always happens between the thought process and the... Continue Reading →
This post will publish in the Press Democrat on Friday, September 7, 2012. On a recent afternoon, my daughter DQ and I were on our way back from dropping my son, Taz, off at his friend’s house. I had assumed that DQ was going to spend the rest of the day bored since one of... Continue Reading →
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