All goals are not the same. Big Salad Wednesday My husband and I have been trying to eat better, especially to eat more whole foods and fresh vegetables. That’s a rather vague goal that is hard to measure. To help to reach that goal, we have instituted what we call Big Salad Wednesdays. Each Wednesday …
As we continue to focus on dreams and goals, let’s think about exactly what it is we want to write. What genre do you want to write? What subject matters do you want to write about? What lengths do you want to write? When and how often do you want to write? Where do you …
Yesterday at Wisconsin Dells I got to 200,000: Miles, that is, not words. When we bought the car in 1995, I had no idea we would still own it now, much less if or when we would reach this milestone. Yesterday I was so excited that I took an exit when the odometer was getting …
She who fails to plan, plans to fail. Last year, for my birthday, my then 17-year-old son gave me what turned out to be one of the best birthday presents I have ever received. He admitted that he hadn’t gotten around to buying anything, so, on a simple card, he wrote that he knew I …
Probably like many of you, I’ve known I wanted to be a writer since I first started thinking about such things.