I took last week off from blogging and…well…everything for two reasons: It was Spring Break. We decided to landscape our yard. By “landscape our yard” I don’t mean we came up with a design and hired a crew to do …
Spring Break
It’s Spring Break at our house. Instead of traveling, we’ve taken on a large (and very creative) project for the house. We also have guests from out of town. This means little time for writing, and even less time for …
Your One Thing
Remember that scene from City Slickers? The one where Curly tells Mitch the meaning of life? Here’s the clip: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1uOqRb0HU] I’ve been thinking about that clip a lot lately. I know my one thing. But I’m very good at putting …
SCBWI NY: Jacqueline Woodson, Libba Bray
You know when you go somewhere and have a mind-blowing experience and then you get back home and you try to tell others about it and everything you say falls short of what you experienced? Yeah. That’s how I’ve felt …
Fitting Creativity into a Busy Life
I wrote a post over at The Parking Lot Confessional about making time for creativity. This is something I’ve struggled with for years. It wasn’t until I started taking my dreams seriously that I figured out how to begin living …