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My Favorite Quotes from the 2013 SCBWI Conference 20 Aug 2013 | 03:28 am
Truthfully, I considered skipping this year’s SCBWI summer conference. The annual event happens to fall between three annual family vacations, all of which are back to back — all of which I have no c...
Reflections & Regret After 3 Years Without a Traditional Day Job 31 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
More than three years ago, I left the corporate newspaper world to follow my dream of becoming a published author. My first project was to share my story of getting out of debt and saving money. I se...
How to Say No with Confidence 24 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
It’s hard to say no to some people. Usually, that’s because we feel the need to explain why. If you’re prone to avoiding conflict (like me), you probably find it really hard to say “no” to a person w...
How to Deal with Self-Doubt 17 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
Everyone doubts themselves from time to time. Maybe you wonder how someone will react to something you said, or a decision you made. Maybe you think no one will like your writing, and your novel will...
Revised: What to Put in Camping Bins 10 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
A reader recently requested via my Facebook page (go like it now!) that I write a post about how to stay organized for camping. Thank you! I love hearing your ideas! My family usually tent camps a co...
How to Simplify Cooking 1 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
I’ve never enjoyed cooking, not even when I was younger. That’s why, instead of learning how to cook, I spent hours writing. That’s just me. Now that I’m older and have a family, my lack of enthusi...
How to Simplify Your Life: Weaknesses List 26 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am
If you haven’t been following my simplicity experiment, you can read the first two posts here: Experiment: Letting Go of the Need to Do Everything Celebrating Our Strengths Today, I want to talk ab...
Celebrating Our Strengths (share yours here) 19 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am
Last week, I decided to begin a simplicity experiment based the idea that we can let go of the need to do everything. Here’s that post, in case you missed it: Experiment: Letting Go of the Need to Do...
Experiment: Letting Go of the Need to Do Everything 12 Jun 2013 | 09:25 pm
Can knowing what you’re good at help you simplify your life? Reading this post on Zen Habits reminded me of a conversation I was having with my sisters about motherhood and housekeeping. We were dis...
4 Ideas that can Immediately Improve a Bad Day 15 May 2013 | 08:39 pm
We all have those days *weeks* *months* when the struggles of life feel overwhelming. The unexpected hits. The plans we’ve made are suddenly undone. Days like this, I’ve learned, are unavoidable...
