Kansas, and whose eyes we’re paying attention to.

Hello! I'm in Kansas right now.Whoa. Slow down. I haven't blogged a single syllable in a month and now suddenly I'm 1) in a different state, 2) about to be in a different country, and 3) writing this from a shiny new iPhone?YES. I am currently at a writing workshop, and I plan on blogging …

Twenty Indicators That You’re Being Abused by Writing

I love to write. I really do. I want to write forever and ever until I die. People tell me I can write well, and I have a lovely functioning brain that has a never-ending stream of consciousness that I can pick ideas from.But, as I sit at my computer with seven different writing assignments …

In Which My Homeschooling Curriculum Delivers Me a Life Lesson

Hello. So today I woke up and decided today was going to be A Really Great Day, for no particular reason. I did my devotionals and said things like this in my eager church-girl internal monologue:"Shower your grace on me today! I want to learn more about you today, Jesus!"The thing about being a Christian and …

Get the Write Feelings: Questions and Answers

Hello, I have returned from the dead. (The dead meaning the calculus, SAT subject test practices, 5th graders' birthday parties, and the overall mood swinginess peppered with some great moments that has been the past week.) Because I haven't been keeping up like I normally do, I have been a little dry in the what-to-blog-about …