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  • Living Courageously

    I have a confession to make. I have been keeping secrets from y’all. Big secrets. Secret secrets. Some of them are so big and so secret that I can’t even tell you about them yet. (I promise I will soon.) But I can tell you the first one today. About a month ago, I got…

  • Coffee Dates: Favorites

    Good Morning, Creatives! How was the week? Anyone make it all the way through? I hope so, because I have such a fun question for you all this week, and it would be a shame to waste it on empty space because all of my friends got flattened by adult responsibilities. So, here’s to hoping…

  • A Writer’s Life: Discouragement

    I’ve been writing for seven years. During that time, I’ve hit many, many low spots. The worst were moments of discouragement. I’m never going to make it. I’ve wasted my time. This book is never going to be published. Thoughts like these hit and hit hard when writers are burned out. It’s as if they…

  • Springtime and a New Baby

    Does anyone remember Baby Groot? He’s a year old now. A whole year. I can hardly believe it. They grow up so fast. We haven’t had a birthday celebration for him yet, mostly because I am waiting for his new leaves to come out, but in the meantime, something exciting has happened! We had a…

  • Coffee Dates: Frustrations

    Good Morning, Creatives! Tomorrow’s the weekend! Anyone have any plans? Writing, adventuring, or just sleeping? (I’m mostly planning on sleeping, if at all possible.) Since I need sleep (and I always do) this week’s question is about frustration. Which part of your writing journey frustrates you the most? What gets you really heated and annoyed…

  • A Writer’s Life: Joy

    Writer, what makes you joyful? Like, singing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs joyful? So joyful that you just want to put on some crazy music and dance in your kitchen? Do you know? I actually had to think pretty hard to figure out what it was that made me that joyful. Spending quality time with people I love, flowers, music,…