Writer, Author & Speaker
Happy First Anniversary to “Mondays by Midnight.” A year ago I challenged myself to write something and post it online each week by midnight on Mondays. I figured giving myself a deadline would encourage me to do it. The midnight deadline soon gave way to finishing it before I went to bed. Which then gave …
In honor of my birthday — which was three days ago — here are five tidbits of trivia about me (in no particular order): I spent the last 20 years educating all four of my children at home. It was a great fit for our family. I loved it (not every minute of every day …
I like to speak them, write them, listen to them, and read them. I have a college degree in words – they call it Communications, which also happens to be the name of my top strength in Clifton Strength Finders. My love language is Words of Affirmation. I have always loved the smell and feel …
I have a table at the libraryI think of it as mine.It faces the window and I can look out — divineSometimes there are cars in a lineOr birds overhead.Almost always the bushes wave in the windy wind. I am not here every dayYet I still think of it as mine.Type, type, type my fingers …
Mondays by Midnight I work well by deadline. I can get so much more done in a condensed amount of time when there is a pressing deadline. Especially if someone else makes the deadline. One of the hardest parts of homeschooling for me was being the one who makes and enforces the deadline: ‘This is …