Daily Thoughts
Story & Characters
As a writer, one of the things I appreciate deeply about my teenagers is their creative writing focus; I love the stories they dabble in and the characters they develop. Those characters take on roles in their stories and in their art, whether on the iPad or in...
Education On the Wings of Eagles
I am not sure exactly why things are off rhythm and routine for me recently, but they are. My morning routine has been left incomplete several days in a row now and some of the standard To Dos I easily check off each day have been going unchecked. Maybe it has...
The Paths We Get to Travel
Yesterday, as we watched Bohemian Rhapsody for the second time, my oldest teenager pointed out how often I say the scene playing is my favorite—”Oh, this is my favorite scene in the movie,” I said over, and over, and over again. It’s a thing I tend to do apparently,...
Movies, Chicken Soup & Big Magic on Off Days
Today, the hours passed more quickly than I anticipated and with each passing hour I became more and more acutely aware that these words had not been written and this post had not been done and my mind was moving in too many directions to rein in for more than a few...
Hearts on Fire
While I tend to try and limit my time on social media in favor of other activities, like reading or listening to a good book or, even better, working on a writing project, there are definitely times I give in to the desire to scroll somewhat mindlessly through one of...
Battery Power Low
Not too long ago we bought each of our teenagers earphones so they could listen to their music in their ears without being influenced by the world around them. For the 17 year old, she preferred an in-ear option and we found a pair that suits her. As for the 14 year...
They Make Any Space a Home
Over my years as a writer I have embraced entirely the existence of Spotify and have likely spent more time than I intended carefully curating playlists for my different writing projects as well as writing moods; they’re sort of like mixtapes I’ve created and...
They Take My Breath Away
A couple of years ago as Christmas approached, I was trying to figure out gifts for the girls’ grandparents, especially my parents who are long distance in Florida at this point. It struck me that something personal, something created by the girls would be a perfect...
Collaborations Created around Creativity
As a writer, I am familiar with the way my creative pursuit can sometimes feel isolating or even lonely because so much of writing happens in solitary time blocks. This is why I have often been drawn to the stories about The Inklings, the group of writers and friends...