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It’s been 25 days since our family has eaten out at a restaurant. We decided to take a challenge: no restaurant meals for the month of September. That’s a significant goal for us. On average, we were eating out (or … Continue reading →

I have a guest post: Rediscovering Writing through Motherhood at Annette Gendler’s blog today. I met Annette through the WordCount Blogathon in 2011 and was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with her on this post; her questions made … Continue reading →

I admit that I am fairly obsessive about checking my email inbox. It goes something like this: Did I get a message? Maybe something came in, hmmm…I better check. Yowza. It’s been two minutes, I’m sure there’s something new by … Continue reading →

You may recall in my first post for the 2012 blogathon, I said this: We’re keeping it simple, friends. That’s the rule this month. And I shared seven reasons why I was doing Michelle Rafter’s Blogathon again this year. In … Continue reading →

Today’s theme is to post a wordle that captures the words on your blog. Thanks to Michelle Rafter’s intro to Jing.com, I was able to use a screen capture to post it here. Some of my favorite words in this … Continue reading →

“The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.” —Joyce Carol Oates, April 1986 Is this true for your writing? For me, I start with the first sentence, but I have a good idea of where I’m … Continue reading →

I am reading Erica Bauermeister’s novel, Joy for Beginngers. It’s wonderful. Chapter by chapter, the book shares how the women who cared for their friend Kate through a life-threatening illness accept the challenges she gives to each of them when … Continue reading →

Today is haiku day for those of us participating in the 2012 Blogathon. Even though I lived in Japan for three years and I graduated with a BA in English Literature, I find this task a bit of a challenge. … Continue reading →

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. … Continue reading →