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Nearing the end of NaNoWriMo
The month of November is drawing to a close. Turkey dinners have come and gone. Turkey sandwiches are soon to be made. For those writers who dared enter into NaNoWriMo land, the clock is running out. Shout outs to Sondra for completing 50,000 words way early! Congrats...
100 Gifts Week – Of dreaming and long drives
This week, I'm focusing on a lot of things that I'm thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you've noticed today. This will be the final installment for this week - but I continue to write gifts each day so I'm constantly seeing God's...
100 Gifts Week – Of family gatherings and day planners
This week, I'm focusing on a lot of things that I'm thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you've noticed today. family gathering together using event planning experience for good old, classic 50s music a vehicle that gets me place...
100 Gifts Week – Of lip balm and family photos
This week, I'm focusing on a lot of things that I'm thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you've noticed today. a reminder to stop complaining and give thanks instead pomegranates on sale a clean kitchen at the end of a long day...
100 Gifts Week – Of salad bars and sunny days
This week, I'm focusing on a lot of things that I'm thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you've noticed today. caffeine spell check salad bars space heaters cherry coke zero a perfect haircut new books in the mail multiple twitter...
100 Gifts Week – Of writing pens and journals
This week, I want to focus on a lot of things that I'm thankful for. I've kept a (fairly) regular gifts journal ever since my friend, Caitlin Muir, began doing her Thankful Thursday posts in the style of Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts. If you haven't heard of or...
Confession about being content and grateful
I have to be completely honest - I'm an overacheiver. A perfectionist. I constantly want more. So this year one of my main goals was to drive more traffic to my blog and get more comments and interactions. I really haven't gotten much more - but I'm getting more and...
Overcoming my “quiet time” misconceptions
For months now, I've been longing for a day where I could break away, invade a little coffee shop, write, journal and pray. Ideal quiet time to listen to God and understand what He wants from me. For months now, it hasn't happened. Quite frankly, I don't know if it...
What I learned while scanning 50 years of photographs
This past weekend, the family and friends gathered to celebrate my grandparent's 50-year wedding anniversary. I took the entire album of my grandparent's photos and scanned them all for a slideshow video that told the story of their life. Through this long process, I...
What’s in a {character} name?
What's in a name? As I've come to learn. A lot. The enough-to-stop-my-scenes-from-moving-forward-because-I-don't-have-the-right-name sort of "a lot." For this year's NaNoWriMo I've resurrected an old manuscript that I had written and rewritten over many years. It is...