In my house, July means the summer’s gone on long enough that boredom has set in and now the only release from the Endless Summer Fun of Youthful Ennui is Recreational Fighting. Don’t get me wrong, my kids are generally [...]
In my house, July means the summer’s gone on long enough that boredom has set in and now the only release from the Endless Summer Fun of Youthful Ennui is Recreational Fighting. Don’t get me wrong, my kids are generally [...]
I’m guest-blogging momming over at Peanut Butter On The Keyboard today – come and join me as I talk Poison Ivy! I’m hosting a giveaway, too!
Fun (or Not!) with Poison Ivy (+ Giveaway!) | peanut butter on the keyboard.
Mondays are my days where I usually blog about some aspect of parenting while working from home. Especially in a creative industry like writing, it can be incredibly hard to carve out respect for your work time, carve out worth [...]
Everybody hates the Chore List. None more so than the one that has to make it. No matter what chore list I set up, the whining commences, followed by the labor disputes. Any attempts to point out that the effort [...]
One of the things I love about writing is the people I meet. Writing is a solitary craft, for the most part, so most of those people reside in my head in one form or another. Writing is a creative [...]
So during this first week of Endless Summer Fun, I took the kids to the local amusement park, courtesy of Season Passes (because there’s no other way to afford going, honestly. I could probably buy a small country with family [...]
My kids fight for fun. When I’ve had it, I tell ‘em to take it outside. When I’ve had it with writing, I gotta take my own advice.
I don’t get to read much for pleasure anymore. I read for analysis, [...]
School is winding down for us and the countdown is in the single digits. Some people send their kids to camp, others have their kids in spring and fall sports. I figure if I’m going to have them home all [...]
Today, I’m speaking to everyone in my life, as well as everyone who happens upon this blog, to tell you that writing can be a lonely business. You sit around all day with only the people in your head for [...]
Monsoon season has come to lovely Ohio, and already the dehumidifiers are working overtime, and the pea-soup air is making my yearly declaration of “no A/C until after school ends” a failure seven days into May. But one thing the [...]