The Importance of a Day Off
I love my kid with all my heart AND I also truly believe the adage, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” Because I’m really struggling. Like, a lot. It helps to make fun of it, find the humor in the situation, but the truth of it all is that this Summer of the No Naps … Read more
Writer’s Group
One of my favorite Z stories is how she asked me to play picnic with her one morning. She’d arranged all the plastic and wooden “food” on a blanket on the floor, and she’d enlisted a plastic Lego box for a little table. So I came in and sat down on the floor, thinking I … Read more
Welcome Home!
Z liked our time in the mountains so much, she decided to sneak some Bug House gravel home with us in her “cooking” bag (see above). (Sidenote: the Bug House is the screened-in building everyone hangs out in. We each have our own sleeping cabins – with bathrooms! a luxury the Hardy Womenfolk insisted upon … Read more
5 Rules for Getting It Written
I wrote the first draft of my work-in-progress (nicknamed le manuscript) in a little over two months. I’m sure it’s not the fastest record on time, but it’s much better than my first manuscript (over a year to complete) and my second (clocking somewhere around eight or nine months). Experience has something to do with … Read more
