Lord God, I sit here, fingers on keyboard, waiting. Waiting for direction. Waiting for words. I have been at this long enough to know that waiting is okay, but also long enough to know that to be a writer I have to write. Today I am seeking direction. What do you want me to write, […]
https://laughingsquid.com/10-minutes-of-weird-deep-sea-aquatic-animals/ Often when I teach my art students about creativity we take some time to look up or read about creatures like the ones in this video. We talk about how much fun God must of had as He thought up the earth and created all of the plants and animals and people. We imagine […]
Today my Bible reading was in Samuel. It was the story of God calling him, speaking to him even in a “in those days messages from the Lord were very rare” (Samuel 3:1) time. At first Samuel didn’t know his Lord’s voice. But God continued to call until Samuel answered, then He gave him clear […]
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If you look closely at this picture, right there with her little head on my foot, is my pug Lucy when she was a tiny puppy. I remember that day. It was a writing day, the one day that I had set aside each week to work furiously on whatever writing project was before me. My […]
My birthday is this week. Sometimes it comes and goes and I don’t think much about it but this year I have been thinking. I’ve been thinking that I want to make sure that every day counts. So I’ve come up with a plan and I wanted to share it with you. Every Day […]
I’ve been working on my resume again. And what a crazy resume it is! It is full of so many diverse experiences that I’m very sure it often gets tossed as soon as it comes in to a potential publisher or employer. There is no box or file that it fits comfortably in. I’ve wrestled […]
While in Chicago I had the opportunity to visit the Chicago Institute of art. There is just nothing like seeing paintings in person. There is something tangible in live art that just doesn’t show up in a print or photo of a painting. What is it? Once I heard a mom say that the difference between the two peanut butter sandwiches […]
Those of you who know me, know that I can’t stay away from writing for long. This time it has been longer than usual. It’s been a time of change….job change, major move, daughter’s wedding, just to mention a few. And all of this change has required some reworking of my heart. I don’t know […]
What is the point of writing? To create. To express yourself. To help you sort through things. To get published. To make a living. (LOL) To touch readers. What? When, like most writers, you have a lifelong addiction to putting words on paper (or computer screens) you have to stop and deal with that question…at least occasionally. […]
They say you aren’t a real writer till you can paper a room with rejections. I have been submitting manuscripts since 1990 and I could probably paper my entire house by now. I have been fortunate, I know. I have had the wonderful thrill and privilege of seeing some of my stuff in print, but […]
Even on my days off I find myself making a mental list of everything I want to get done…everything I should get done. I think on the top of that list should be the words: 1. Be still Not for a minute, or a second, but for long enough to get past just catching my […]
I know that creativity requires energy so I’m wondering; Do I need to store up energy to be more creative? When I blog does it drip creative energy out of me like a leaky faucet? Do I need to hold back on my blog and my painting for a bit until the pressure becomes so pent up that it […]
Sometimes the giants among us look small because they are flying so high.
Monday night I was tired so instead of packing up all my paints to go to my art class I took an old sketch pad, some pencils and tray of watercolors. I opened the sketch pad and found some drawings of little characters that I had made, oh, probably about six years ago. I remember thinking that […]
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