Planning Ahead–Help Requested

Last week I touched on the fact that attaining an objective is a road, a journey. So, as I’m still in planning mode for this year (having gotten a late start due to some traveling and my arms being in casts), I’m thinking about planning my journey through 2023. There...

Resolutions, Goals, or Objectives

January is half-way done! How are you with those New Year’s resolutions you made—if you made any at all? I know there are a great number of people who have simply given up on the concept of resolutions…I have to admit to being one of them. Instead of resolutions that...

Happy Belated New Year!

Welcome to 2023! Yes, yes, I know I’m a little late to this party, but if you’ll remember from  my last blog post in mid-December, I slipped on some snow, fell, and broke both of my wrists. My arms are still in casts, so this post is going to be short, I’m afraid—it...

The Best Gift You Can Give Any Writer

It’s that time of year again! Yup, time to look through all those lists of things you either can’t afford or can’t image why anyone would think a writer would want that (an antique manual typewriter? Really?? I mean… it’s pretty, but unless you’ve got a lot of spare...

Go ahead and celebrate

Every Sunday, my husband and I sit and watch an American football game. I enjoy watching men in tight uniforms engage in fantastic feats of athleticism; my husband loves the strategy involved. (Football, despite the physicality of it, is a cerebral game.) But there is...

Learning from Failure

We all fail. We all try new things and have them just not work out the way you expected. But that doesn’t mean that you throw away what you did and never look at it again. You need to stop, take a good hard look at what you did and why it didn’t work and see what you...
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