Image via Wikipedia Thought I’d share a few new (to me) finds! Websites for Writers – a new site that lists resources for writers. If you publish articles about writing you can submit your site to the listings. Go check it out. Oh, and Maternal Spark is newly listed there….if you have a moment to rate me, that would be [...]
Writer and Mom Meagan Francis has published her own version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs – the Mother’s Hierarchy of needs at her site The Happiest Mom. At the top of her pyramid she lists some things that aren’t necessary for survival, or a measure of self worth or friendships even, but things that are necessary for true contentment. Way [...]
They have BAD taste! My sweet little H was in the TV room and I turned my back for 20 seconds to grab the vacuum cleaner (this is true hubs…evidence that I cleaned!) When I turned around a movie was starting on the tube. My darling daughter had managed to grab the remote and order something on pay per view. [...]
I want to start out with saying that I know this is off topic. This is not about creativity or motherhood. But I thought it might be of interest to those of you who use twitter and so I’ll post it here. I don’t want this to sound like a cheesy ‘make money online thing‘ either because it’s not. But [...]
to the men in my little H’s life… we love you – Happy Father’s Day!
I know I’ve been there, have you? I’ll get what I think is a fantastic idea and I’ll set about working and working and then… Nothing. I’m stuck. I lose steam. My passion fizzles. Why does this happen? It’s easy to pass it off as being busy – motherhood calls (and it does) but if an idea is a good [...]
Dear Little H, You are always going to do things before I’m ready for you to do them aren’t you? So far, the only thing that took you longer than it should have was your incubation in my tummy. You were in there too long and had to be evicted. But since that day, you’ve done everything ahead of schedule. [...]
The other day I came across a discussion in a writer’s forum I used to frequent. The thread was about Flash Fiction and so I jumped in and posted my two bits. I said that I don’t believe pieces should be squashed into the 1000 word limit to qualify as flash when they are clearly fragments meant to be longer [...]
