Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Creative Joy in Hard Times

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My main goal for the year, as I've announced here, was to have ten hours of creative joy each month, where I'd record these hours in...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

The Challenge of Not Resenting Happy People

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Many of you know that my current life project, in a season of intense dread and despair, is to be a role model . . . to myself. I am trying...
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Overwhelmed with Work Projects? Try a Work Smorgasbord!

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Lately my to-do list has been long, and my energy for tackling it has been low. All of the tasks on the list need to be done, but few of the...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Five Episodes of Happiness a Day

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Now that the exhilaration of the SCBWI conference and the Boston excursion are behind me, all that lies ahead is . . . real life. Ordinary e...
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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Brief Boston Bliss

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My older son, Christopher, is our family's expert on extravagant celebration. When he was about to turn 21, he decided that the perfec...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

A Bone Marrow Transplant of JOY

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Last weekend was the 42nd annual conference of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators)...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Survival Secrets

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It's been a week since I made the decision to face the saddest, scariest season of my life by trying to be a role model. . . to myself. ...
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