Writing

“County Fair and Hometown Stories” This week LiveWire is happy to welcome guests from the Ethel Hart Center and The Sacramento County Fair. There are ...

Writing. Does the word scare you or remind you of bad college essays? Or maybe you don’t think you can write. the only writing in your life is to help your children through their homework. If this sounds familiar, then maybe we need to rethink the meaning behind it. Writing is an art form,...

I set out to find my muse today. Long dormant under piles of paper, loads of laundry and unwashed dishes, her elusiveness is starting to wear me down. Like the moment when you realize your body doesn’t react they way it did twenty years ago, panic begins to take over. Perhaps she’ll never return?...

When spring nudges winter aside, the opportunities for learning are many, and quite a lot of it happens outside. Spring isn’t a static event that is the same everywhere. In different parts of the country, spring can either mean that flowers have started blossoming, birds have begun to sing early in the morning, and...

Seven years ago today, a site launched that would change my life. 18 months later I would find out about it and sign up. I learned about Twitter at work. I was reading some article about marketing and the author … Continue reading →

It seems as though there is a problem with high achieving high school seniors who come from limited means and the colleges at which they apply. An analysis of every high school student who took the SAT was conducted by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford and Christopher Avery of Harvard. They have many years as...

I’m not misquoting Howard Cosell.  I’m waxing philosophical.  KCRA is running their local A List popularity contest again. And of course, my blog automatically got “nominated” because I put it on there last year and they just keep renewing the … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, I’m so excited to announce that my book Finding Mommy Bliss is coming out soon via the new Snippet App!  It’s been really fun to be one of the authors in this new app’s launch and to work with the amazing Bamboo Creative (the creators of Snippet). The scoop on Snippet: It’s a new...

Why, yes. Yes, I did!I am utterly thrilled to announce a new arrival in our household. Affectionately known as The Big D, the fruits of my labor were born March 14, 2013 at 6:32 p.m., weighing in at 217 pages of prose, 58 pages of front/back matter, an...

Blog Hop: easier agreed to than done A Next Best Thing blog hop is a giant game of tag to help readers discover authors who are new to them.  kern.justin / Wedding Photos / CC BY-NC-ND Naomi Williams, one of my former creative writing instr...