Posted in Raising kids, Writing on Sep 24th, 2010
Rachelle Gardner, my favorite agent blogger, somehow discovered my blog. She’s been secretly reading it since April and thinks it’s funny, witty, well-written, and all around brilliant. Even the posts I write in a sleep-deprived stupor she finds delightful. She emails me and asks if I’ve thought about writing a book. I email back and [...]
Posted in Raising kids, Writing on May 18th, 2010
On Maundy Thursday—the day before we learned we were pregnant with twins—Doug and I went to the evening service at our church. Our pastor began his meditation by mentioning that the word Maundy comes from the Latin mandate. Though you pronounce it like it’s Spanish—mon-DAH-tay—when you see it written you realize right away what it [...]
Next month is NaNoWriMo. (That’s National Novel Writing Month for those of you who aren’t novelists.) The purpose of NaNoWriMo is to provide a forum for accountability and encouragement for would-be novelists to actually crank out their brain child. The goal of NaNoWriMo is for each registered writer to write 50,000 words in 30 days. [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
