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Writing and Homeschool

I say "writing", but I'm really going to cover our whole language arts set-up. The core of our writing curriculum is "Writing With Ease"...

Not quite yet, but soon! Next week we start up school again. We are fortunate that we've always homeschooled, so are able to keep doing...

We got to go to the beach during our recent heat wave and it was SO REFRESHING. I do not enjoy heat or humidity. Not at all. But, while...

I'm from Minnesota, have always lived in Minnesota, and our Minnesotan culture runs deep in me. There's a term "Minnesota nice" which...

When a manuscript is off to my agent or a publisher for review it's a waiting game. Sometimes a looooooong waiting game (or not really,...

Everything feels a little off kilter right now. It's so easy for me to look at all the things that are harder or scarier...or what I'm...

You can do it all, but not all of it all the time, right? So there was a little pause on the blog/writing/publishing because our family...

As we say here in Minnesota, uff-da!! (But being the stoic Scandinavians and Germans, probably not with that much emphasis). Life has...

This little fellow decided to make an appearance four weeks early. Which meant my plan to have some blog posts ready and scheduled for my...

I'm a romance writer, so today I'm going to talk romance and love stories... There's an awkward moment about 99% of the time when someone...