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Find Balance (a repost from 2009)

When someone says the word ‘balance’ we tend to think of checkbooks or standing on one foot. It doesn’t conjure up an immediate image of writing, probably because writers usually say “pace” or “plot element” and the word balance doesn’t enter into the equation. I want to change that today…

My Readers Really Are The Best

Back in June I released the first chapter of EVEN VILLAINS FALL IN LOVE in an intro anthology from the SFR Brigade titled PORTALS:Volume 4 (we’re up to 7 now I think). I didn’t really think much of it until this week while I was in a post-book shambles. I…

Take a Nap!

You know me, any excuse for a few minutes of peace and quiet is a good one. Sleep researchers have been working for years to explain the benefits of napping. Does this scenario sound familiar… You’ve been at the computer for three hours straight. Between checking e-mail, balancing the checkbook,…

In which our heroine finally gets to see the belugas…

Since arriving in Alaska in early 2015 one thing I’ve been absolutely keen to do is see the beluga whales at Beluga Point. Just a few miles south of Anchorage proper, along the Seward Highway, there is a turn off near an outcropping of stone where -rumor had it –…

Another Fight

Someone asked me today what they should do if life is just too overwhelming. When you hurt, and depressed, and you’ve been kicked down so many times by life that you can’t remember not being in the mud… I’m not sure I have an answer for that. It’s a good…

The Days I Forgot

We were at the zoo. It was pushing 80 during a record-breaking heatwave in Alaska. The house has no air conditioning, the kids were going crazy, and the zoo had popcorn, pokestops, two pokemon gyms, and some new cygnets that have grown a lot this week. So we went… chilling…

A Little Gift

As I’m writing tonight the world is an uproar. There have been massive bombings during the holy month of Ramadan, shootings of civilians in America, and now police officers are being attacked. People are grieving. They fear for their lives and the lives of those they love. Parents are struggling…

Go Ahead And Trash It

I’m a firm believer in wearing clothes you can trash. Everyone needs at least one set of super comfy clothes for lounging in all day while reading a book, and one set of clothes for trashing. We call them Grubbies. During the first week of summer break the first project…

Summer Is Coming

IT’S SUMMER BREAK!!!! You’d think that with four kids I’d be dreading summer break, but I’m not. During the school year I have anywhere between 8 and 12 alarms going off every day reminding me to do drop-off, pick-up, mandatory school volunteer work, homework, and chauffeuring to school events or…

Broken Window Theory

Originally Posted 2/21/13 There are days where turning off the computer feels like a defeat. I turn off the computer at the end of my daily writing goals. Sometimes I have a number of words to write, sometimes I’m looking to edit a certain number of pages, sometimes I’m sending…