Today’s post is brought to you by Cristen Dimas, my longtime friend and children’s book writing partner. Cristen once had a purpose that fulfilled her, but when life circumstances changed, she found herself needing to explore new avenues. Read her inspiring story below! When my family relocated as a result of a transfer in my […]
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Identity Crisis: Averted
I chose to write about PURPOSE this month for, well, a purpose. I thought I would need to prepare myself for the feeling that I was losing my current life’s purpose by giving up mommy-time and writing-time in favor of going back to work. I thought this transition, from stay-at-home to working mom, from writer back […]
The Purpose of Practice
As a music teacher, I am regularly told that my subject is less important and more expendable than other “core” subjects such as reading, math and science. Why? Well, because most music students don’t grow up to have careers in music. I question the validity of this point (does that mean Biology and Algebra were […]
Purpose, Simplified
Let’s kick off the PURPOSE-ful month of August by simply defining what it is, and figuring out how to find it. To my mind, finding purpose is the art of asking yourself personal “why” questions; purpose itself lies in the answers to those questions. For example: Purpose: Parenting Question: “Why do I want to be a parent?” The […]
Conference Recap/August Mini-Series
As I wrote about in last week’s post, It’s Worth The Fear, I went to a writing conference this past weekend- the Writer’s Digest conference in New York City. Now I feel like a bit of a fraud for previously reporting that I had any element of fear about attending this conference. Sure, I was nervous […]
Ambition Is Worth The Fear
I have a dream, a goal, an ambition. It’s the most important thing in the world to me, after my family. I want to have a book published. (I was about to write, “I want to be a published author”- I almost forgot that I already am! And I’m very proud of publishing a short […]