So you want to be a writer?
Only two more days until the SCBWI Conference! I’m looking forward to it. I thought I’d put up the post below since it’s about how my writing journey began. Enjoy!…
Some days, parenting is… hard
Happy Mom-Monday, everyone! I’m speaking at and helping plan the SCBWI conference this weekend, and I’m working on an article for Sacramento Parent Magazine that’s due Friday, so I’ll be…
A new thing…
Happy first week of spring, everyone! I hope this season is filled with new things for you! “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you…
The story about my son and the light bulbs…
I grab my purse off the counter and hurry toward the door. “Wait,” my ten-year-old says, coming down the stairs, a flashlight in his hands. “I’ve gotta show you something.” His eyes…
A couple of exciting writing / book events!
It’s hard to believe that our annual Northern California SCBWI Spring Spirit conference is just a couple weeks away (April 2nd)! I’m really excited. (For those of you who might be new…
And then there were… ducks!
The other morning, Mike was telling the kids how he’d been seeing ducks fly over our house lately. Just a few hours later, that same day, we got a couple of…
Mom-Mondays – a time to share
Thanks for all of your sweet comments and emails wishing me well on my dental surgery last week. Everything went great and I’m pretty much back to normal, although I didn’t…
Friendship…
These birds land in one of the redwood trees in our backyard almost every day around 5:00 pm. Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge For more “Wordful” / Wordless…