One person’s humor can be another person’s yawn. One person’s proud can be someone else’s embarrassment. On either side of the fence, I find that most things in life are not as they appear on the surface, because there exists the chapters before and the chapters not yet written, and all we see is a [...]
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Proudest Moments
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged Writer's Digest, Jane Friedman, Christina Katz, The Ultimate Mom, There Are No Rules, radio interview, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, CBS Sunday Morning, The Prosperous Writer, book signing, anthology on May 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Life is funny, or why I started screaming at the TV
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged CBS Sunday Morning, Erma Bombeck, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, Lost in Suburbia, Mother's Day, motherhood, Rebel Without a Minivan, Tracy Beckerman on May 10, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Have I mentioned before that life is funny? It bears mentioning again, because it is the only explanation I have for why my Mother’s Day included blood-curdling screams. Like most of my adventures, this one started out innocently enough. As I have mentioned 53 times already, I attended a writing conference a few weeks ago. [...]
Why Erma?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged bookmobile, Erma Bombeck, Erma Bombect Writing Workshop, Darrelyn Saloom on April 20, 2010 | 17 Comments »
“Why Erma?” someone asked. Erma Bombeck was the first humor writer that I ever read. As a kid, when I had exhausted the stack of books from the summer bookmobile, I would browse through the house for reading material. There on the living room bookshelf, near the Reader’s Digest Condensed versions and the set of [...]
funny people
Posted in Writing, good reads, tagged Bill Scheft, Donna Gephart, Erma Bombect Writing Workshop, Gail Collins, Karen Walrond, Tracy Beckerman, Wade Rouse on April 17, 2010 | 20 Comments »
I love writing conferences. Every writing workshop I attend leaves me feeling energized, inspired, and armed with, well, armloads of useful information. This time, I can add one more take-away to the list: the endorphins from laughing until I have tears running down my face. It is the final day of the Erma Bombeck Writers [...]
turn it upside down
Posted in Photography, Writing, tagged Erma Bombeck, frown, Humor Writers Workshop on April 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today’s hypothesis: it is not possible to feel frowny at a humor writers conference. To test my theory, I attended the Erma Bombeck Humor Writers Workshop today. And I smiled all day long.
one word
Posted in Writing, tagged Ali Edwards, blogiversary, children's book, Christina Katz, ChristinaKatz.com, Jane Koenen Bretl, Marsha Norman, middle grade novel, NaNoWriMo, one word, Writing on January 29, 2010 | 14 Comments »
“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” Marsha Norman Can one little word provide some vision for a whole year? I stumbled upon the idea of this ‘one word‘ while reading author Christina Katz’s new site. She moved her “WriterMama Riffs” blog over to ChristinaKatz.com. Christina chose her [...]
bangs or no bangs?
Posted in Writing, tagged blogs, Jane Friedman, Jane Koenen Bretl, new year, Writer Unboxed, Writer's Digest on January 4, 2010 | 8 Comments »
New year, new look. Inspired by a recent post from Jane Friedman of Writer’s Digest, I did a little cyber redecorating again. Her guest post, “5 Things That Make Me Stop Reading Websites and Blogs” appeared on the blog Writer Unboxed. In it, she outlines a few easy blog fixes that can help ensure an [...]
mission accomplished
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing on December 3, 2009 | 15 Comments »
It has taken me several days to recover, but I am thrilled to share that I did indeed make my goal of 50,000 words in 30 days! It entailed writing 20,000 words in the last week, including the last 7,000 words on Monday November 30th. It was a finish reminiscent of every term paper I [...]
leap before looking
Posted in Writing, get along like cats and dogs, tagged cats, comfort zone, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
With advance apologies to the many excellent housekeepers I know, please disregard the state of my windows. Wait, um, I mean, those are not my windows… Ha! Silly me. Yeah this is definitely someone else’s house and that kitten just looks like my kitten Cowboy. But the point remains: I have hit the 30,000 word [...]
10 days, and the honeymoon? Already?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »
It is Day 10 of my great writing escapade, and I have this news flash to report: NaNoWriMo Honeymoon. So. Over. I look back at my bright-and-shiny post from a week ago (Really? Has it been a whole week? What have I been doing?) Oh, I remember, yesterday I pruned a bonsai instead of writing. [...]
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