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, but that was about it. We’d never been to the area before. When we left, […]
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Big Question, Writing Prompt: Superpower
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, or just a question to ponder during the day. If you had a superpower, what would it be?
The Finish Line: “Just Do it!”
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 many more words than I anticipated; the original 88,000 turned into 116,000. (I’m not quite sure how that […]
Top 10 Reasons To Go On Vacations
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 older, and particularly since having a kid, I’ve realized there can be multiple motivations for vacationing. I’ve also learned that everyone […]
Adventures in Budgeting
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 school year. I’m very happy about this decision because I love motherhood much more than I’d expected, and […]
Vacation Book List
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, sometimes it’s something bigger (like the cruise in Alaska last summer). Additionally, for the past 7 years, the end of August has always meant […]