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Adventure Mom May 20, 2020

When Writing Disappears

That happens from time to time, right? You forget to hit save like I did…

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Writing May 19, 2020

Embracing Chaos

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a…

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Writing May 18, 2020

Secrets of the Writer Bees

Late afternoon on Sunday, a day that began with a hike to several waterfalls in…

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Writing May 17, 2020

A Year of Going Nowhere

Were you planning on traveling this year? We were going to Chicago in June, meet…

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Writing May 16, 2020

Collage Words into Your Writing

What are your reading? Let it bleed a bit into your writing.When you run across…

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Adventure Mom May 15, 2020

Paper doll Mom

Have you ever imagined a character you’re writing, or your mother, as something you might…

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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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