Thank you very much, Donna Martin, at On the Write Track blog, http://www.donasdays.blogspot.com/, for giving me a lovely blog award! So now, I need to tell you seven things about myself and pass this award on to three other peeps with lovely blogs. But before I do, I need to thank my brother for … [Read more...]
ORIGINS Blogfest…In Which a Poet Morphs into a Book-Writing Mom
For the Origins Blogfest, we're supposed to chronicle our earliest remembrances of our writing superpowers...okay, maybe not superpowers, as you'll quickly find out below.As you can tell from my monkey bar photo above, I had a highly cerebral childhood! Seriously, though, I was ambidextrous till K-4 … [Read more...]
Lessons from Homeschooling
Many homeschooling moms/dads will tell you that they've learned a lot by becoming their child's primary teacher. Granted, some lessons will be things along the lines of, "I learned that my child is not fully awake by seven a.m.," or "I learned that my child should NOT drink Mountain Dew during a … [Read more...]
A Classics Challenge–EARTH ABIDES by George R. Stewart
For this month's Classics Challenge, we're supposed to answer questions about a character we found interesting in our classic of choice. I'm going to review Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart, which I would define as an apocalyptic sci-fi classic from 1949.What phrases has the author used to … [Read more...]
DON’T GIVE UP–Guest Post by Amy Sonnichsen
I'm so excited to introduce my guest blogger today, Amy Sonnichsen. She's a fellow writer who runs a brilliantly titled blog called The Green Bathtub, http://alsonnichsen.blogspot.com. Her blog is positively addicting, and such a great resource for writers. Amy is a stay-at-home mom of five … [Read more...]
TRITINA POEM–BLOGGER
For fun, I decided to flex my poem-writing muscles over on the Writer's Digest blog (link down on the right, just look up poetic asides--tritenas). They were practicing tritinas, in which the last word of the poem lines go in this order:ABCCABBCA(Last line uses ABC in any order).So here's a little … [Read more...]