Sweetness between crusts,
Conversations with friends make
A slice of heaven.
1996. My belly was huge with the impending birth of my daughter. I moaned that I wouldn’t have any room for pie after Thanksgiving dinner. Hmmm…solution? Pie for breakfast.…
There I was tap-tap-taping away at my computer and my character started to have a heart attack. Right at the tip of my fingers.
“Wait. Stop,” I said to the computer screen. “You can’t have a heart attack. You’re supposed…
The teens in our carpool are reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
Teen 1: We have to annonate 32 pages of Fahrenheit 451 tonight. Groan.
Teen 2: Yeah. But I’m really liking the book.
Teen 1: Me, too.
Teen 2: There…
I follow several blogs each week. They are like reading the newspaper. Better, though because I can skip the murders and politics and go straight to the kidlitosphere.
One I like very much is Nathan Bransford. It is a great…
At one of my first yoga sessions, the teacher said, “A yoga practice has a very specific pathway. The first step is Unconscious Incompetence. Next comes Conscious Incompetence. The third step is Conscious Competence. Finally, after much work, you reach…
My friend, Carmen Oliver just posted an interview with Stephanie Greene so I decided to chime in over here because I recently finished reading Stephanie’s Happy Birthday, Sophie Hartley.
Fellow VCFA alum, SCBWI Regional Advisor and friend Debbie Gonzales says…
A couple of times a week I go to the Yoga studio and submit to a 90 minute guided meditation. I say ‘submit’ because the practice takes place in a 105 degree room and the 26 postures are exactly the…
Last night, my teen, in her best teen anguish voice, said, “Why can’t you be medium?”
Huh?
“You’re either acting like a six year old or you’re hovering like a granny. Why can’t you just be medium?”
I thought her…
My friend Brian Yansky has a post today about inspiration and showing up for your writing. I read Brian’s blog regularly because, well, he’s the one who got me into this blogging semi-regularly business. There we were, standing at some…
Years and years ago, when I saw Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia, I fell in love with Gray’s notion of a perfect moment. It is that moment which takes you by surprise, reorganizes your molecular structure and shoots you out…
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Writing Resources
Because we work by ourselves, writers and illustrators often feel alone. We aren’t but sometimes we need to be reminded of all the great resources around us. Here are a few that I rely on for classes, news and general good thinking:
