Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘… Writing’ Category

Sehnsuchtsstudio

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , on 19 April 2013 | Leave a Comment »

A friend of mine posted a picture from VCCA and it made me long to be back there.  VCCA stands for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  It’s an artists colony in the middle of Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and is one of the more magical places I have [...]

Read Full Post »

Home alone, wild times

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Life in general, ... Writing, Truly Miscallaneous, tagged , , , , on 7 April 2013 | 1 Comment »

Today, for the first time in a long time, I have the house to myself.  The twins are off with their father, visiting their grandparents and running around their yard, picking daffodils and petting the pink lawn flamingos that are just the right height.  I am at my desk wondering what to do next.  I [...]

Read Full Post »

Toot toot!

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , on 1 February 2013 | 8 Comments »

I haven’t been posting as much here as I usually do, but that’s because I’ve been writing writing writing — and my hard work has been paying off! Here’s a little happy horn tooting: I’ve had work accepted at r.kv.r.y quarterly. And I’ve had work accepted at Stealing Time: A Literary Magazine for Parents.  (You [...]

Read Full Post »

Asking the Bibliomancy Oracle

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about writing, tagged , , on 18 December 2012 | 2 Comments »

So I asked the Bibliomancy Oracle what to do about my writing career — pursue essay, biography, teaching, what?  And it replied: Gotta find a way around those young cats. This is from the poem “OL’ MAN STRENGTH” by Derrick Weston Brown.  You can (scroll down and) read the whole poem here. A little research revealed [...]

Read Full Post »

Head colds, meerkats and living in the present

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about parenting, tagged , , , on 24 November 2012 | 1 Comment »

Since the twins were born — nearly 22 months ago — I’ve been living in the present.  I can’t fret too much about what the future holds when each day is crammed with so many challenges and triumphs — both theirs as growing homo sapiens and mine as a mother and a writer.  Many of [...]

Read Full Post »

“Fluttering at the Margins”

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , , on 17 November 2012 | 2 Comments »

At last!  My piece, “Fluttering at the Margins,” is up on HER KIND, A BLOG POWERED BY VIDA: WOMEN IN LITERARY ARTS.  It’s about twins and bats and writing and parenting and biography and Facebook and becoming an essayist and the extinction of the dinosaurs. It’s the piece I read at The Virginia Center for [...]

Read Full Post »

Following through on “autumn plans”

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, How is it I have a category about clutter and cleaning??, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , on 6 November 2012 | 3 Comments »

Late this summer I wrote a post about autumn plans.  Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell made what they called “autumn plans” and I was smitten by the idea.  Woolf writes: I always think of those curious long autumn walks with which we ended a summer holiday, talking of what we were going to [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »