Freelance Writer & Author
Finding Focus Before I started this personal challenge, I knew there were a few things I needed to get control of in my life. In particular, finding focus: I needed to find a solid way to keep focused on my daily tasks. I stray quite easily. I’m a total sucker for jumping down rabbit holes….
What is a Personal Challenge? A personal challenge is to do something that scares the bejeebers out of you. Or it’s a challenge to start a new habit or start a new job, or just flat out start a job. It could be a personal challenge to better your health: quit smoking, exercise more, eat…
First Steps First This whole designing a bedroom/ game room into a home office remodel is exciting and scary. This is my first attempt at tackling a full design for a room of any kind. When we moved into our home we brought our old furniture with us. We didn’t plan a layout, we worked…
What’s it like? Does anything really change? Will the kids really be gone? Will they ever talk to me again? Do finances get a breather? Are you happy? Are you sad? These were all the questions I had when I began accepting that my kids were growing up and would be leaving the nest soon….
College Bound Let me clear that up, it sounds like I’m off to college and that’s not the case. My boys are heading to college. The last kiddos at home. The twins. My babies. The past few months have been fraught with numerous trips across the state for orientations and placement tests. We just returned…
I’m experimenting now. This means a variety of posts will cross the wall of this blog. For years, I’ve struggled to get this blog going. I’ve let this blog die by the roadside while I veered off onto other writing avenues. I’ve felt the need to make this blog about fiction, nonfiction, encouragement, reading, etc…….
I devour new information. Questions sprout in my mind throughout the day and I feel the need to learn. Nothing is off-limits: I want to know the best hand creams, the best Chrome Extensions, the best productivity apps for my phone, I want to find Ghost towns and little-known trails, I want quick party recipes,…
Schedules Change Of all the emotional tolls over the past week, the one that I know I will adjust the easiest to is my husband’s new work schedule. Changing my writing times has been something that I do with every new season in life. Whether it be learning to write while tots terrorize or while…
Lately, I’ve been agitated. On edge. Easily frustrated. A huge part of that is I haven’t been running or walking as much. Another part is that I’m loading my plate a bit more and setting higher goals, increasing my writing productivity. My husband (Mr. Skeptic) told me meditation can help. Mind you, he doesn’t meditate….
If you know your personality, then you can better identify your triggers and your soul-soothers. The other day my friend and I volunteered for our kids’ high school band program by helping out at a dog show. We walked laps around the building and chatted. We are opposites on the social spectrum. M’s personality is…