My youngest may have graduated last year – but after homeschooling 12 children in the last 35 years, I’ve still had a bit of experience with teaching younger students! One of the things I learned along the way was how important hands-on learning is. Another was how much fun learning about animals can be.
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- A Flashing Sign May 15, 2020- Another short story inspired by what’s going on around us: She had always considered herself a true American. A patriot. A law abiding citizen. She sang the National Anthem with as much gusto as anyone.But today she had stopped to think about the words she was singing. She was struck by the ones that […]
- Through the Window May 10, 2020- I made a more upbeat post a couple weeks ago. I will apologize in advance that today’s is more melancholy than the last one. But it’s what I felt led to write on Mother’s Day. This one is a fictional story, but it is based on what several women I know have been going […]
- Lights on the Horizon April 27, 2020- I had planned to write my next blog post on what the first two years of retirement had been like, or maybe even one on the joy of writing with writing prompts (something I’ve been doing alot of lately!). But as often happens, my plans this spring have been in a constant state of […]
- Celebrating “Retirement” May 16, 2018- Changing Directions – Again As happens so often, I have changed directions on this week’s blog post. Hopefully, my previously planned topic will appear in a future post, but not this week. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post, Celebrating 35 years of Homeschooling, 40 years of Parenting, 60 years of Life, […]
- Making and Revising Goals April 30, 2018- I’ve been a big goal setter for as long as I can remember. In fact, “To Do Lists” are some of my favorite things. (Though sometimes they only seem like space holders for the ever-increasing number of tasks that seem to go onto those lists faster than they come off.) I try to keep […]
- Four More Travel Tips April 16, 2018- As someone who travels often, I am always on the lookout for travel tips that will make the travel portion of my life just a little bit easier. In 2017, with the exception of October, I managed to go out of town at least once every month for the entire year. (And that exception was […]
- My Nine Tips for Novice Novel Writers April 2, 2018- My Tips for Novel Writers Start With Write about something/someone you are interested in Set goals Write daily Plan to go back and revise often Repeat until you’re happy with the length and the story Have multiple people read and give you feed back Revise as necessary Get your book published Celebrate and plan […]
- Writing with Scrivener March 18, 2018- Being a new convert to writing with Scrivener, I thought I would share a little of my journey to getting here and my new excitement in using it. I’ve been writing for a very long – more than twenty-five years in fact. Along the way I’ve gone through a couple of different desktops and a […]
- Dealing with the Winter Blues March 6, 2018- Explanations or Excuses? (And does it really matter?) I hadn’t meant to go almost two months between blog posts. But much of the last two months have not gone the way I thought they would. (Testimony to the idea that we can make our plans, but ultimately God is in control.) I started the […]
- Do Books Ever Go Out of Style? January 9, 2018- As an avid reader and writer of non-fiction and historical fiction I do LOTS of research. Of course, these days I do much of that research on the internet, but I have found again and again that books are still the best way to go so many times. While I am a big fan […]
