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  • The Bear Story

    This week, I have five straight days of meetings for work. That’s a lot of talking for this little introvert. So, to give myself courage for it all, I have decided to tell you all . . . The Bear Story. *Ominous Music* That’s right. I’ve hinted about it and promised to tell it someday.…

  • Milestones

    On Thursday, my boss came back from California with two things. A picture, and the first page of the studio script they had been recording, signed by the actors. That’s right. My first script has officially been recorded. I have an Adventures in Odyssey episode with my name on it. How crazy is that? Now…

  • Newsies

    I didn’t fold my laundry this weekend. Scandalous, right? Actually, my weekend turned out just a little bit too busy to include boring stuff like laundry and clothes hangers. On Sunday, like an actual adult who has an adult job and does adult things, I got all my meal prep for the week done, including…

  • Devouring Stories

    Last week we started talking about things writers can do to move their careers forward when the next step seems impossibly far off. Sometimes ‘making it as a writer’ seems like it’s full of huge, gigantic leaps forward: finishing a book, finding an agent, getting published, working full-time as a writer, earning this award, being…

  • Dark To Dark

    Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s also a Monday. And I get to stay home. What a strange feeling. I am celebrating by watching the birds come to get the birdseed I left on the porch for them. So far, there is one Steller Jay. I guess word hasn’t gotten around yet. I’m…

  • What Next Step??

    I wrote a post recently about doing the next right thing. Since that’s my version of a New Year’s Resolution, I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot. I also went to go see Frozen 2 over the weekend with my younger sisters. In case you were wondering, it was fabulous. I loved it. But…