At this weekend's Ragged Edge Conference Ted Dekker explained to some 100 conference attendees that those of us born to write are artists who see the world through a different lens. And that God created us that way. He referred to us as Blue Monkey's in a Brown Monkey world. I so resonated with all the wisdom and advice he and the other award winning authors in attendance shared. And I recognized that at times I have compromised and tried to … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
She Is Flying The Nest!
I am having some breakfast before I go meet my soon to be good friend Ted Dekker (yeah right!) and I started crying. I read today's post over at MomLife Today... Sweet memories tumble through my head and slowly spill out of my eyes as salty tears. It was supposed to be just another one of my daily walks through the nearby lush green park, but it ended up being a walk down memory lane. I saw her running through the play ground, her dark … [Read more...]
Ted Dekker…Here I Come
Busting with excitement here! Tomorrow I am heading to The Ragged Edge Writers' Symposium with Ted Dekker! Oh heck yes I am! This is supposed to be an intensive that will leave us dripping and oozing with ideas, techniques and writing oh-rah excitement x 1,000!!! I can hardly contain myself. My daughter has her final goodbye plans with her High School friends while I'm away so she's getting that out of her system so we can spend all … [Read more...]
Friend Thing
Today I went and met with my friend Jenn - she's pretty wonderful. We did the whole meet at the coffee shop and sit and chat thing. We totally lost track of time and ended up there nearly three hours. Yeah...sweet. {umm...some things didn't get done today...and it really is ok!} As moms we sometimes spend so much time doing our mom thing that we neglect our friend thing. Spending those three hours with her made me realize I should do that … [Read more...]
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