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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…

The Strange Emptiness of Success

You wouldn’t think there was a sadness attached to success. There should be elation. Perhaps celebration. There should be parades, and trumpets, joy! But as I clean my desk tonight and tuck away the notes and scraps and post-is associated with DECOHERENCE I realize I’m burying the corpse of Jane…

Making Progress!

I started physical therapy in January after finally realizing that, no, resting wasn’t making my hip better. When the pain was so bad I considered buying a gun to shot my leg, I went to the doctor (see me make good choices!). After several tests it was determined that I…

Top Ten Allowable Reasons To Interrupt Mom While She’s Working (2.0)

Back in 2011 Corina Lawson published the original list of reasons children could reasonably interrupt a writing mother (or father). I love that list. It’s cute, and funny, and spot on. Nothing short a full zombie apocalypse should interrupt an author on a deadline. However, some of the jokes were…

March Goes Out Like A Lamb

This is normally where I’d announce the winner for the March prize, but since it’s International Idiot’s Awareness Day I’ve decided to wait until Monday so that no one deletes the notification as junk mail. March Writing Stats 31,000 Words Written — 50,000 Word (100 Pages) Edited – Blood shed,…