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Monday’s Portrait: Portrait of a Journal
Hattie and I kayaking together on our recent trip to Florida. I’ve kept a journal for as long as I can remember. It’s a habit my mom started me on. Sunday afternoons she would hand us ea… more →
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Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a Journal
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wrote 1 year ago: Hattie and I kayaking together on our recent trip to Florida. I’ve kept a journal for as long … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of Time Well Spent
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wrote 1 year ago: This afternoon I headed up to Sandy for my fourth consecutive summer as an attendee of the Writing a … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a Pep Talk
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wrote 2 years ago: I decided to wake up at 6:30 this morning to work on my novel. For the morning people out there tha … more →
Portrait of a Portal
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wrote 2 years ago: I couldn’t call this “Monday’s Portrait” because Monday is over. I have fou … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a Legacy
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wrote 2 years ago: Recently the librarian at my children’s elementary school displayed a bushy-bearded photo of Walt Wh … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a Dance
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wrote 2 years ago: In last week’s post I promised more discussion about my failed attempt to finish my novel by J … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a hobby
wrote 2 years ago: Saturday I drove 40 minutes south for the first annual Teen Book Fest at the Provo City Library. Wh … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a fourth-grade brainstorm
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wrote 2 years ago: At the beginning of the school year I told my fourth grader’s teacher about my writing backgro … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of Contentment
wrote 2 years ago: A Mennonite farm outside of Strasburg, PA I didn’t get a chance to post last week because I wa … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a Workspace, part II
wrote 2 years ago: Four weeks ago I posted about the chaos of summer, and the challenge it is to find time to be creati … more →
Monday's Portrait: a manifesto
wrote 2 years ago: Last week while attending the fabulous Salt Lake City-based conference, Writing and Illustrating for … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of Aspiring
wrote 2 years ago: This week I’m attending the Salt Lake based conference, “Writing and Illustrating for Yo … more →
Monday's Portrait: Portrait of a Workspace
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wrote 2 years ago: The kids are home from school. I want to be thrilled about it. I spent the last two months countin … more →
Portrait of a protagonist
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wrote 3 years ago: The book I am writing is a work in progress that began so long ago I am embarrassed to say. But in … more →
Portrait of a Friday Morning
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wrote 3 years ago: Friday morning I dragged myself out of bed at 7:15 so I could make waffles for my kids. I needed to … more →
Portrait of Career Day
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wrote 3 years ago: Recently I went to my daughter’s first grade classroom for career day. Why? Because she want … more →
Portrait of an Idea
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wrote 3 years ago: I’m back. And I have ten minutes before my kids get home from school. But I’ll take it … more →
Portrait of an Apple-Picker
wrote 3 years ago: Mule Deer Driving home down Alpine Highway, a busy road for a quiet town, I stopped when I saw a you … more →
Portrait of my PC
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wrote 3 years ago: Last week I bought a box of peaches. A very large box. I’m embarrassed to say how overwhelmi … more →
