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Perfect Moment Monday: Good enough?

August 26, 2012

Tessa was quite nervous to start her new school year. She hadn’t slept well the night before because she’d wrestled with demons: Would her new grade be too hard? Would she be accepted?  Would she have what she needs? Would she do the right things, wear the right things, say the right things? And the [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: Full deck

July 29, 2012

Our backyard haven had been missing or unusable for much of the summer. The back deck, small and decrepit, had been scraped and rebuilt over the course of the previous five weeks. In addition, Roger had been gone nearly a month for work. But everything shifted back into place recently as we christened our new-and-improved [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: Blog life meets real life

June 24, 2012

June has been a month of convergence between my two lives, the virtual one and the face-to-face one. Loch Tess: To welcome the month, reader Caitlin and her adorable son, Sam, invited the children and me to spend the afternoon on her pontoon. Tessa and Reed swam in the lake and, thrill of thrills, they [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: Done! (stage one)

May 27, 2012

Thanks to so many of you and my very supportive family, I have finished the first draft my my manuscript (with Crystal’s help)! I have three more months to spit and polish and to build the frontmatter and backmatter sections before I submit it to the publisher. Then the REAL spitting and polishing begins. Because [...]

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