June 4, 2015

We’ve been dealing with repeated rainstorms lately, several weeks’ worth, actually. Water is gathering on our sidewalk and pooling there for days because the ground is so saturated. But the last two days have been dry and warm, so off to the lake we went to waterski. The lake we usually go to was over…

February 26, 2014

All me, just different. Like most writers, I have a day job.  I am a teacher.  I am also a wife and mother, so adding a writing life just increases confusion to the standard complicated life of this everywoman. I have to keep them from overlapping.  My teaching is about the student, not about what…

January 23, 2014

Write when you can.  Be there the rest of the time All writers juggle their private and public lives with their writing lives.  It doesn’t matter if they write for a living or write part time.  Yesterday, I had a rare day free from any after-work demand from my job.  I had a post for…