Last week on the blog, we discussed how many aspects of a writing career give a sense of warm, fuzzy familiarity to those who are coming at it from a career in another creative field. But as I’ve dipped my toes into the swimming pool that is the writing life, I’ve noticed a few things that are very different from …
You might not know this about me, but I’m a professional cellist. I’ve got two college degrees in cello performance and over twenty years’ experience as a paid musician. I perform with orchestras, teach private lessons, play weddings and other gigs, and improvise worship music with our church’s band. As “day jobs” go, mine is the best. I get paid …
I have a four-year-old daughter, and like many other four-year-old daughters, she is obsessed with “My Little Pony.” While I rarely sit and watch an episode with her (her TV time is my Responsibility Champion time), the episodes I have seen in full are quickly making me a fan. The writing is great, the characters are superb, and there’s a …
Last year, our Local Megamart (tm Alton Brown) began a service called ClickList, where you order your groceries online, then pick them up and pay for them at the store without setting foot inside. The ClickList people even load your car for you! Clearly this is the best thing since sliced bread, especially for those of us with small, adorable, …
This is something I posted to my personal Facebook page last year, and it resonated with a lot of people. I’m re-posting it here; I pray it blesses your Easter Saturday. *** For me, something that has always been lost in the shuffle of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and Easter Sunday is this day. Saturday. The day after Jesus …
About nine years ago, when I started writing consistently, I did not tell a soul. Only my husband knew what I was spending all my off time doing (and if he thought his wife had suddenly lost her marbles, he kept that opinion to himself, bless him). A few months later, I told a couple of my online friends, but …
There’ll be something here soon, I promise.