Breaks from writing are great, but there comes a moment when it is time to GET BACK TO WORK.
          I’ve past that point.
          I have written very little other than this blog the past two [...]

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          Transitions. I have a love-hate relationship with them. Given my personality, I enjoy change. I start to get bored and unmotivated if my life stays the same too long. As much as I have come to value routines and schedules, I must have fun, [...]

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My routine gets upset at least twice a year: the start of school and the end of school. It seems I just get the routine down of balancing all my mothering, teaching, soccer-momming, and writing, then school is over and we’ve got extra time. A few weeks of getting the kids to stop saying, “Mom [...]

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Some of the hardest times for a writer to hang onto writing routines are what I call transition times, those times when something in the normal schedule changes. It can be as simple as adding an evening activity, as big as a cross-country move or as life-changing as having a new baby. It can [...]

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