A friend of mine texted me that she just landed in Boston from LA. After she got home, she said she is enjoying a gentle re-entry. Just the wording of that phrase made me feel calm. I’m going to practice a re-entry myself tomorrow. A re-entry into my daily life and I certainly do want . . . → Read More: Gentle Re-Entry
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Yesterday was Valentine's Day, but I didn't get the love story until today. Please meet my new author friend, Diana Lesire Brandmeyer. I met Diana in January through the Ultimate Blog Challenge. She is the author of the children's book that I'm illustrating. Diana is a Christian author, that also writes contemporary and historical romance. . . . → Read More: A Love Story…A Day Later Day three begins, once again, with no power. There is power in one lone block in the center of our town which contains not only the police station, but a gas station right next door to it. This made getting enough gas for the generator easy. We had to get enough because the tweet from . . . → Read More: Nemo – Day 3 – Live From East Sandwich Beach Tonight, after a harrowing day of taking my daughter for lasik surgery yesterday, I wanted nothing better than a quiet evening in my chair, with a glass of wine, after a nice dinner. (It all turned out fine even though we sat in traffic due to an accident, arrived two minutes before the appointment because, . . . → Read More: Taught By Tulips If you don't know Keith Jennings, get to know him through his Sunday newsletter, Root Notes. A few weeks ago I published a post about Keith's newsletter on his resolutions. Keith is a writer and shared with us some very wincing things we do when we write, and his resolutions to fix them. I . . . → Read More: A “New” Writer? I firmly believe that the relationships between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons are sacred. They reach far, far into every other relationship in our life. They determine how we will find and treat a spouse. They determine how we will raise and treat our children. They determine how we will behave in close . . . → Read More: That’s True, BUT… Yes. A day of studying trees. Today while working on my illustrating project it became apparent, as my focus shifted from my main characters to the backgrounds, there are a lot of trees involved. I needed to explore tree parts and shadows. I also think each picture is going be quite small, so I needed . . . → Read More: Studying Trees Some days are just filled with love. Not big, huge starry-eyed I'm falling in love love, but teeny tiny fondness love for little ordinary things. This weekend, as I cleaned, relaxed, and did artwork, I found myself saying "I really love and appreciate ______." to my husband four or five times. I asked him to . . . → Read More: iLuv Lazy Sunday afternoon, no more football, cold outside….almost February first….time to move on. Away with the snowflakes on the window and the snowmen around the room. Time to pull away the furniture, wash the floor, vacuum the ceiling fan and the multitude of other tasks it takes to clean a room from top to bottom . . . → Read More: Moving On While cleaning out the magazine holder I came across a crinkled copy of Writer Magazine from 2010. It was folded to page 12, indicating I must have been reading something of interest when I set it down two years ago. I questioned the importance of the article since I never returned to it. Curiosity got . . . → Read More: Write Like An Athelete – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog |
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