Parenting
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Our Cruise on the Norwegian Dawn Part 2
Our Norwegian Dawn Cruise Part 2 Click here for Part 1 The next three stops on our Norwegian Dawn cruise were Belize, Costa Maya, and Cozumel. Belize The guys wanted adventure and my friend Elena and I did not so we split up and took two separate tours. The boys went zip lining and cave tubing and the girls went for a leisurely stroll through the Belize Zoo followed by a boat ride. Unfortunately, we don’t have any pictures of the zip line/cave tubing adventure. They all had so much fun they forgot to take pictures. After hearing about their adventure Elena and I loved that we chose to go to the…
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Catching Fire and Helping Children
Catching Fire and Helping Children I was watching Catching Fire with my family. In the scene where Katniss and Peeta are giving a speech to District 11 they’re told to read their speeches from prepared cards. Peeta looks at his card and begins to read as the crowd stands emotionless, then he puts down the card and speaks from his heart. When he does he and Katniss inspire the crowd. Sitting in the theatre it suddenly occurred to me that writing is the same. If I throw away everything that is on the surface and dig deep, connections are made. For adults it takes courage to go deep and slice through the layers…
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Remembering The Accident That Changed Our Lives
Remembering The Accident That Changed Our Lives The other day I was speaking to my daughter, Arielle, on the phone. It was one of our marathon conversations, which I love. I wasn’t sure whether or not to bring up the significance of this Thanksgiving. My husband, Eric, told me mentioning it might upset her, but I had a feeling it was already on her mind. I was right. When I asked if she was OK with me writing about the ten-year anniversary of the accident she told me she too had planned to blog about it. She said not to worry because our posts would be different–go ahead and write. The Call Just as memories…
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Procrastination
Procrastination Writers are often faced with great resistance, otherwise known as procrastination. For me, there is a feeling within that I must write, yet when I sit down at the keyboard suddenly I’m checking email, Facebook and Pinterest before I click to open my manuscript. I learned from watching an interview with Steven Pressfield on Super Soul Sunday that what I’m feeling is resistance and when the pain of resistance becomes greater than the pain of facing a blank page then I’ll get to work. It’s like when I was little and learning how to dive. I would stand on the edge of the diving board for a loooong time staring at the water – afraid.…
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Easy, Inexpensive AND Delicious Homemade Holiday Gift
Easy, Inexpensive AND Delicious Homemade Holiday Gift I wanted to create a homemade gift for the holidays that was delicious and easy to make for a classroom or party. I searched online and found: Yummymummykitchen Check out her recipe, beautiful pictures and printable! Most everything you need to make these chocolate peppermint spoons can be found at the Dollar Store. I purchased the holiday tape from Home Depot. The spoons I used were soup spoons and didn’t fit into my popsicle mold so I poured the melted chocolate into a cupcake pan. Here’s all you need Plastic spoons Plastic cups or holiday mugs Chocolate bits (I used dark chocolate) Candy canes or peppermints Peppermint Flavor Mini…
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Twenty Years Ago…
Twenty years ago my beautiful daughter was born. Happy birthday, Arielle. I love you with all that I am. Love, Mom My attempt at poetry was inspired by TILT by Ellen Hopkins.
