Okay. I took a few days off to recover from the 50 Day Wedding Promo blogging. Now it is time to give back to everyone who supported me (and give forward to those who are thinking about dipping a toe into the backlist/indie world of ebooks). As I’ve progressed on this journey of putting up [...]
I wasn’t sure I would ever get to this 50th post. NOTE: If you ever want to do something that stretches you to the max, try to post on a blog for 50 straight days, while working on other work for 14 hours a day and taking a week long trip to the Midwest. I [...]
This Turtle Mom spent my first six years in Charleston, South Carolina (a few of those in Goose Creek, but still…). I still remember sitting in corners, under tables, behind chairs, with a book in hand (beginning at 5, when I went to first grade and learned to read) and listening to the storytellers in [...]
In our house, when a shirt loses a button, we put it in the closet. Then put it back on, remember there’s no button, and put it back in the closet. Until we take it to Goodwill. I would like to be able to sew. It strikes images of Little House on the Prairie for [...]
Before a Turtle Mom becomes a mom, she is still a Turtle. Turtle Kid, Turtle Tween, Turtle Teen, Turtle…well, you get the point. And, as I’ve mentioned before a Turtle of any age likes a lot of shell time. In my shell, I do not need to worry about outward appearance. Apparently, this has resulted [...]
For her first 8 years, Daughter socialized with adults more than kids. Our little family social group consisted of physics major friends of ScienceDad. Our extended family included teen aunts and an uncle, plus grandparents. Her first 6 birthday parties had an average attendee age of 30. She did have one awesome kid-centric birthday party [...]
For a very long time, I was an unpublished writer. Daughter saw me scribbling ideas on notepads, heard me talking about characters or writing at the dinner table and in the car, knew I went away to writing conferences and workshops and critique groups, but nothing was out there in the bookstore with my (and, [...]
Writers are dangerous people to cross, as many have found when they discover they have become the murderer…or the murdered…in a novelist’s mystery. What many don’t realize is that it is even more dangerous to be in a writer’s family. The day to day experiences are ripe for the plucking. Little snippets of things said, [...]
One thing this Turtle Mom learned after having a child with autism is that there is a reason that Turtle Moms like a lot of shell time, and for this Turtle Mom, at least, that reason begins with aut and ends with ism. Daughter, fortunately, is not so plagued with such tendencies. This is both [...]
It is Father’s Day in the U.S. today. Daughter is taking her dad out for brunch with fiancee. We will discuss wedding, no doubt. But also PopPop, who is not here to celebrate the day with us. He was a steady influence in Daughter’s life (he was the original Turtle Dad, and passed down to [...]
