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Writing May 13, 2020

Comfort and Challenge

In making my list of 10 elements for a great day (yesterday’s post) I found…

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Inspired Lists May 12, 2020

Top 10 for a Great Day?

Do you ever wonder why some days end on a high and others end in…

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Prompts May 11, 2020

Life as an Alien

A few years ago our youngest was drawing space shapes- a moon, some stars, a…

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Adventure Mom May 9, 2020

Why We Write

Why do you write? Every now and then I return to this existential question. Like…

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Memoir May 8, 2020

Devious Dolls

What do you do with your mother’s doll collection after she dies? No one wanted…

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Adventure Mom May 7, 2020

Things We Say

“Get back on the horse,” is something my mother said quite a lot. I fell…

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Prompts May 6, 2020

What We Are Unable to Say

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but…

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Prompts May 5, 2020

The Job You Can Never Quit

Fanny Howe never let children get in the way of writing. When I was at…

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Memoir May 4, 2020

Being Called Dottie

Escape from the murder hornets with me for a moment on this first Monday of…

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Writing May 3, 2020

Set an Extravagant Goal

Sunday is a day I rest, relax, rejoice. Then plan my week. What do you…

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Prompts May 2, 2020

Back thru our Mothers

Was it Virginia Woolf who first said, we think back through our mothers? Is there…

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Prompts May 1, 2020

Happy May Day-Birth and Rebirth

Have you ever written about your birth? About what it might be like if you…

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Childhood May 1, 2020

Last Day of 12

It still does not fail to amaze me that I have a 12 year-old, but…

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Writing April 28, 2020

May is Almost Here-mamomemo time!

So what are we doing for Motherhood Memoir Month during the coronavirus sequester? Writing of…

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Writing April 28, 2020

MaMoMeMo 2020 is Almost Here

So what are we doing for Motherhood Memoir Month during the coronavirus sequester? Writing of…

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