That Quiet Time of Day

There is a time as a parent when you become acutely aware of the quiet, but instead of it inspiring you to relax, it spurs you to investigate as if you are Sherlock Holmes himself. You know what I’m talking about, especially if you have been the parent of young...

The Kismet of Our Creative Lives

(this post contains affiliate links) A few years ago I discovered a book by Elizabeth Gilbert called, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear and devoured its words and ideas zestfully. Because it inspired me as much as it did, I also got the audio version, read by...

If at First You Don’t Figure It Out…

I don’t know about you, but there are times I’m in the middle of what seems like it should be a simple project and I find myself simply stymied. My best efforts yield nothing more than additional annoyance at best because I cannot figure out the solution. In those...

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...

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,...