work habits
Blogging in a Coffee Shop
Every once in a while I get the opportunity to do my work at a coffee shop, my favorite place to settle in and get some writing done.
My favorite sources for more than 1048 Blog Prompts
a round up of some of my favorite sources for blogging and writing prompts.
2012 – A year in review
A look back at the year that was. I introduced my little girl to one of my favorite pieces of public art in Seattle. I dove into the Winter/Spring semester as a full time student. I went to New Orleans to attend the Conference for Young Women affected by breast cancer. It was so powerful […]
Bloggers at Work
a humorous look at a day in the life of a blogger who writes about being a mom.
There is no great writing, only great rewriting
I usually beat myself up during the writing process. If every word isn’t perfect as it appears from my fingertips, I get frustrated and want to give up. I don’t know how many times I heard the above quote at the Write on the Sound writers’ conference last weekend, but it was definitely something I […]
Book Review: Writer Mama: how to raise a writing career alongside your kids
Have you ever thought about making a living as a writer? That thought has been a constant companion of mine for the past 25 years. Yes, 25 years, and it was just about exactly one year ago that I actually started doing something about it. Now with a little one on the way, I wondered […]
Time to Clean out the Flickr Pool
Ok, well this is just a little bit ridiculous. I’ve really got to clean up my flickr pool. I moved to this site because of the tags and sets and categories and now that I’ve got 1944 images uploaded, the vast majority are untagged, unsetted (I just made that word up) and uncategorized. I’m a […]
The Reading Room
For the past couple of months the Husband has been encouraging me to pack up my goodies and go spend a day studying in the reading room in the Suzzillo Library at the University of Washington. It’s just a couple blocks away, but I’ve been resisting. For some reason I felt intimidated. I’m not sure […]
Time Management
My dad had a theory, he called it the “Schwartz theory of gaseous expansion,” which stated the material in a room will always expand to fill the available space. No matter how big your room is, it will eventually feel cramped because there’s too much stuff in it. I was thinking about that theory and […]