Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: DEPEND I spent about two hours today, in my in-laws’ old house. […]
Banned Books Week 2017
Banned Books Week 2017 is September 24 through 30, 2017. Since 2014, I have participated in the Banned Books Week Virtual Readout (which, by the way, can be done anytime — not just during BBW). In 2016, I read from Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (here’s the recording). In 2015, I read from The Curious […]
Five Minute Friday: ACCEPT
Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: ACCEPT My heart is heavy over an incident in our community that […]
Heifer’s “Cows to Classrooms” Program is Expanding!
This post is made possible by support from Heifer International. All opinions are my own (but I’m not sure what Joey from Friends thinks). It has been quite a few years since I had to open one of these: ….. but I’m pretty sure nothing has happened in the decades between elementary school and now […]
Introducing the Start-Up Guide for Online Writers
*This post contains an affiliate link. The opinion is all my own!* “I’ve always wanted to blog but am not sure how to get started.” “I’m going to blog someday when I figure out where to start.” “People always tell me I should be blogging about [insert incredibly riveting experience/expertise/fashion sense here]” If the above […]
Five Minute Friday: SUPPORT
Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: SUPPORT. Support is sometimes (often) easier to give than it […]