4 Ways to Enjoy Summer While Writing
May 28, 2012 by Gina Conroy
Filed under Balance, Blog
With the changing of seasons comes the changing of schedules and many writing interruptions. You think you’ll have more time to write in the summer, but every year it seems like you have less. Can you relate? If you’re like me, summer activities will take on a life of their own if we don’t grab [...]
Organizing Schedules So You Can Find More Time to Write
September 2, 2011 by Gina Conroy
Filed under Balance, Blog, Home Management
As writers it’s easy to make excuses not to write, but add a busy family and back to school schedules, and it seems like squeezing in writing time is impossible. The key to finding writing time is getting organized and intentional about your “free time” no matter how much or little you have. But first [...]
Back to School … and Work
August 30, 2011 by Heather Ivester
Filed under Blog, Goals, Parenting
FROM THE ARCHIVES Something absolutely amazing happened this week. My youngest child started preschool. For the first time in over eleven years of stay-home momhood, I have the house to myself. The dog and cats are outside. The TV is off, radio is off. I can hear the refrigerator running as I type. And that [...]
Scheduling Your Family: How Do You Choose?
August 29, 2011 by Ann Kroeker
Filed under Balance, Blog, Family, Home Management
I hate to bid farewell to summer, the season of flexibility and spontaneity. Eventually, though, summer schedule gives way to fall, and the freedom to be flexible is replaced by appointments, deadlines, expectations. The whole family shifts to a more disciplined, scheduled life. And the hardest part, I think, is the time of transition when [...]
Confessions of a Schizophrenic Writer
May 1, 2011 by Katharine Grubb
Filed under Encouragement
I recently had one of those moments when I was misunderstood. This “advice”, from a well-meaning, but far too hasty mentor, was just a suggestion. One, if taken at face value, meant little. But nevertheless, it was a “poo-poo”-ing of my grand idea and it stung and continued to sting for a long time. It [...]
A Resolution Worth Keeping
January 15, 2009 by Cyndy Salzmann
Filed under Home Management
I had heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.” Job 42:5 Good intentions. Our lives are full of them. And when it comes to finding time to spend one-on-one time with God, the proverbial “road” is paved with them. Well aware of this struggle in my own life, [...]
