With the advent of technology, more and more people are able to work from home. In fact, I think the vast majority of writers work from home. Sure, some of us have day jobs that require putting on real pants and leaving the house, but all our writing generally occurs at home. As you can imagine, working from home does …
What Medical Bills and a Broken Radio Taught Me About Forgiveness
A couple weeks before Christmas, my husband was hanging lights on our house when the ladder collapsed, taking him with it. He suffered a nasty gash on the back of his ankle, which—to make a very, very long story very, very short—got infected, went septic, and landed him in the hospital for nine days. As you can imagine, nine days …
Writing When You Don’t Have Time
Photo by JackF/iStock / Getty Images My children are home on summer break. This is both wonderful and not-so-wonderful. It’s wonderful because they really are pretty awesome kids. And I enjoy having them around (most of the time). Perhaps even more than that, I enjoy the down time. I enjoy not having to spend my evenings drilling spelling words and …