I sit by my open back door, in the late afternoon with a slow steady rain making a hissing sound as it falls through the trees. I have just closed the cover of the first young adult novel I’ve read in many, many years. I sigh. I think “wow”. I didn’t have to be thirteen . . . → Read More: “Walk Two Moons” – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog
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As the sun sets on Cape Cod, another 4th of July vacation comes to a close. All but one daughter has left, we had one last great beach time today, one last barbecue, and now, while hubby returns the other daughter to Boston, the remaining one and I will end the holiday with a movie . . . → Read More: Pushing The Button – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog Today the online women’s magazine, Cape Women Online, featured an article on my author and friend, Joan Walsh, the founder of the Cape Cod Children’s Writer’s group that I belong to. A year ago she was working very hard to get her book, Cape Cod Memory Makers Explore the Town of Falmouth, published. I stand . . . → Read More: A Day For Kudos! – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog Breakfast in the hotel turned out to be a buffet for $12.95. Anyone who knows me, knows I’d never eat $12 worth of food. But I had to make this work because I’m not paying $12 for a bowl of oatmeal. I stayed here for an hour and a half. I started with the oatmeal, . . . → Read More: The Morning After Get it, read it, enjoy it, do it!!!! This was an accidental find on my field trip to Titcomb’s Bookstore. I picked it up because the title and cover design intrigued me. I stood there maybe five minutes reading it. Then I found things in it I wanted to take home with me, so I . . . → Read More: For Writers Blocked – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog I often think now, one year later, how much better of a place my head is in. I attributed it to the natural healing process that occurs over time. I never stopped to really think about how I’ve treated this head of mine for the last 18 months. I’m starting a new little business . . . → Read More: Garbage In, Garbage Out Yesterday, an hour of what I have now deemed “my writing work time” was spent reading the author interviews in the Children’s Writers & Illustrators Market. This past week I have become obsessed with this book. I have read many “how to” books on everything from editing your own work to how to write a . . . → Read More: Time In The Sandbox – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog After my second day of practicing mindfulness, I have come to the conclusion that mindfulness is a major contributing factor to my mindlessness. Yoga, today, as far as being mindful goes, was a joke. I cannot believe what happened to me. For the last two days, I have caught myself setting up for the . . . → Read More: “Practicing” Mindfulness – Day 2 I have always been an optimistic, glass half full type of person since I was a child. The future, be it the day ahead of me, or years down the road, always held hope. I would say that's how one deals with accepting uncertainty – until fear enters the heart and mind through a difficult . . . → Read More: Accepting Uncertainty ….or God thinks so anyway. First video I saw this morning – new one by Lady Antebellum – dealing with moving slowly in a relationship. Yoga – teacher today was Dan. A delightful boy with a gentle voice and clear dialogue – but delivers it ever so slowly….adding excruciating seconds to each posture. A . . . → Read More: I Must Be ADD…. |
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