Momming Monday: Potty Training Block 2

When the pants go on, albeit without underwear, the whole potty game changes. Block 2 requires your child to know what it feels like to have to go, it requires them to have to be able to take off their own clothing. Or not. You can also play it like I do and yank pants...

Momming Monday: Potty Training Block 2

After three days of watching my son like a hawk for the first squirmy dance, touching himself, or just stopping like a deer in headlights all of a sudden, we are finally getting the majority of all pees and poops in the potty. Of course, he's been naked the whole three days so it has...

When All That’s Left is Writing

I'd rather go on a walk right now than write my book. I'm writing this now from the basement as I watch my husband try and soothe our over-tired two-year-old to sleep. I'm supposed to be writing my novel. I'm not shirking my duties, I'm taking a break from my own brain and allowing myself...

Why All Writers Are Narcissists

Don't get me wrong, I think we're all a bit narcissistic on a basic, human level. But narcissism is the life blood of writers. We, and I include myself to be generous (To me, not to other, more talented writers. Though that would be narcissistic of me, so...), think we have something so unique and profound to...

Momming Monday: Potty Training – Block One

"Naked and Afraid" is also an appropriate title for this blog post. Because he was naked, and I was afraid. We woke up all excited on a Saturday morning. We took off the PJs and the soaked overnight diaper and we...waited. In "Oh Crap...Potty Training" Block One is all about changing the mindset for the...

Setting Goals: First Steps to Getting Published

I began writing professionally to some extent over 5 years ago and have been writing off and on ever since, with some hiatuses longer than others (*cough*...haven't written in the last two years...*cough*). But as I continue to grow my family and continue improving myself as a professional educator I find myself holding fierce to...

Momming Monday: Potty Training…The Prequel

"You'll know when he's ready." "Mine just started going in the potty one day and never wore a diaper since." "I just told my daughter that she could have her princess panties when she started using the potty and she was potty trained overnight!" Nope. Not me. Probably not anyone, actually. My husband and I...

How I Quit My Job and Became a Freelance Writer

The trend this week in blogs I've been reading seems to be "How to Sell Your Books" through social media. I've decided to take the blogs' advice as well as pepper in a bit of my own while also shamelessly plugging my self-published book about writing, "How I Quit My Job and Became a Freelance...

Potty Training vs. Developing a Readership (more alike than you’d think)

Poop goes in the potty. Don't believe me? My 24 month old could tell you this too. Some days. Other days it's the panicked look of a deer in headlights as a turd log plummets down his pant leg and rests comfortably around his ankle somewhere. I know it's weird to compare two seemingly unconnected...

3 Tips to Get Your Short Story Published

If you're like me, and you're probably not, you're probably much more talented and less likely to tuck your shirt into your pantyhose for the whole fourth grade to see your princess underwear...but I've gotten over that. Almost. If you're reading this, chances are you are a writer of short fiction and you want some...