Monday Mindset: Lessons in Life from Parenting

“There’s an old saying about kids learning to walk, and “what if” they gave up the first time they fell (or any time before they became confident walkers, really).”

Monday Mindset: The Monday After

Monday Mindset: tough days take a lot out of you. Managing my mindset and working to let go of what I cannot control helps do exactly this

Thursday Thoughts:

We live in a small town. It ranks as one of the “safest” in Virginia, year after year. Despite that, the truth about humanity struck here on Tuesday. A former college student shot and killed two Bridgewater College campus officers before taking off and leading officers from Bridgewater, VSP and surrounding localities on a man…

Inspired Post: Joining the 7-7-7 Writer’s Challenge!

Fellow blogger Kay Morris of Kay Morris Writes has challenged me to join the 7-7-7 Writer’s Challenge! The rules: Go to the 7th page of my WIP. Find the 7th sentence on that page, then paste the following 7 sentences into my blog post. Finally, select 7 other writers for the challenge! Below is an excerpt from my…

A Visit to the Literary Lion Pingbacks (Blogging 101: Day 12)

For the Day 12 assignment in Blogging 101, we were to revisit the prompt we used for our Day 11 post and get engaged with other bloggers in the comments section. The assignment was to read at least six and comment on at least two other bloggers posts based on the same prompt. The Literary Lion:…