A 5 Minute Writing Story

Listen to this post, read aloud by Eve I’ve been wanting to write a book most of my life, but I haven’t known what to write about. And while I’ve been waiting and wondering, I’ve written courses about writing and taught them, from kindergarten through college.  My students’ ages have varied, but the theme for…

Where You Can Find Steadiness, no Matter the Madness

There are days when our 6 local grandboys are all here at once, and everybody gets along, and we all have fun. And then there are days when at least one of them loses his mind and the fun goes with it. We were playing in the basement, when one suggested we turn out the…

What I Learned from Winnie-the-Pooh

"Well, if you're not struggling, you're dead!" I overheard someone say this week. It's a fitting segue as I sit down to dash this off from Athens, Georgia where this morning, my soccer player at UGA had her 3rd surgery in as many years.  Oh my, how this daughter has struggled. When she went off…