Last weekend, my husband and I took a trip to Vermont. We hadn’t made many plans for the trip: we had a room booked for two nights at a B&B, and we knew the route we planned to take up north...Read More
Happy Monday morning! As you begin your workweek, before you jump into the minutiae of everyday work and life, take a moment to step back and ask yourself a Big Question. This can be a writing prompt...Read More
The plan was for my novel re-write to be done by the end of June. It wasn’t. The new plan was to finish before I left on vacation this past Monday. I didn’t. To be fair, this draft was m...Read More
What’s the purpose of vacations? I would never have asked myself this question in my twenties. I would have thought it was obvious: you go on vacation to relax. Period. But as I’ve gotten ...Read More
Around Thanksgiving, my husband and I decided that instead of going back to work at the end of January as we’d originally planned, I am going to stay out on maternity leave for the rest of the s...Read More
I realized today that I haven’t officially recognized the start of summer vacation on the blog yet. Hooray! Usually, summer for me means travel time. Sometimes it’s a few short trips, some...Read More
