• How I’m making time to write (and do all the things)

    A quote box with the quote: You don't have a time management problem, you have an honesty problem.

    A friend recommended the book Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky. He saw this post on Instagram and it inspired him enough to pick up a copy and recommend it to me. I am glad he did because it sparked a rich internal attentiveness and conversation about time and […]

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  • Make a splash with your writing

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    Sometimes there is this pressure as a parent to make each summer special and memorable for our kids. We can get caught up in comparison. What’s everyone else doing this summer? Maybe we get caught up in check-lists. Okay gang, here’s the list and let’s check off every item.  We do this as writers and […]

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  • Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain

    A gripping book—The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain—that I read within 48 hours.* I loved this fictional account of Hadley Hemingway’s marriage to Ernest Hemingway. It followed their courtship and marriage (including flashbacks of their earlier lives), and a detailed account of Ernest’s early career. The insight into what it took to break into the […]

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