Novel writing is a bit touchy in our house. My husband supports my writing, but fiction makes him a little nervous….and with good reason. When I was a kid, I didn’t play. I built houses and castles out of brix blox, and I read, drew and wrote stories. At night, instead of going to sleep,…
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Torn
(Note: if you’re one of the many who skip my “writing” posts…don’t. Not today.) For thirty hours last weekend, I lived out a fantasy. I left behind diapers and whining and runny noses and kids who change their mind ten times and food prep and cleanup…and I went to a writer’s convention. I walked the…
Read MoreTime Management Tips For Moms Who Work At Home
My freshman year of college, the director of bands came into an orientation for new music majors. “You’ve picked a great major,” he told us. “Employers, even medical schools love to admit music majors because they’re such good time managers.” I always wondered if he was blowing smoke; I found it hard to believe that…
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -Henry David Thoreau There are times in life when every word I read seems to be a message from Heaven hammering home a single point. The last two weeks or so have…
Read More7 Quick Takes, vol. 89
1. I’ve been having one of those weeks again. One of those weeks where I found myself out of balance, focused myopically on writing, unable to sleep at night for being wound up about it, and spending far too little time being wife and mom. Any time this happens to me, it calls into question…
Read MoreDeath by Chocolate (and Peanut Butter)
Ann Voskamp has us thinking about rest this week. But in my reflections on the subject, I realized…I haven’t been. And as I lie awake at night, wound up and wishing it was morning so I could write…as I wake up 3 and 4 times through the night and have trouble getting back to sleep…
Read MoreRight Brain, Scatter Brain
I’ve been thinking about hand preferences a lot lately. As I try to puzzle out Nicholas’s hand preference, and as I watch Alex at baseball, I am reminded that I am a weirdo: left handed, but not exactly, because the only thing I do left handed is write. Well, that’s not exactly true; I can bowl…
Read MoreWord(less)ful Wednesday, et al
Aren’t they pretty? Kudos to Spring Hill. Today I am guest posting for Rae over at No Wealth But Life. Rae is one of the most thoughtful, reason-driven faithful women I know. Lately she’s been running an interesting series of guest posts on the topic: To stay at home, or not to stay at home?…
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(Warning: If you’re not interested in reading about the writing process, skip to the end!) “Art is never finished—only abandoned.” Leonardo da Vinci It’s a big deal to finish a novel. At least, if you listen to the collective wisdom of the writing world. And maybe they’re right. But despite the long lapse in years…
Read MoreA Matter of Balance
Am I first a wife, a mother, or a writer? Like most “either/or” questions, the answer is “yes.” I do not accept that being a mother must take something away from being a wife. Nor do I believe that writing must be done at the expense of my family obligations. Throughout the ages, people have…
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Kathleen M. Basi 