I think I might be a writer! Every yellow dot represents someone who has requested the first chapter of my e-book “Listening Lunch: The Hows and Whys of Audio for Homeschoolers”. This is pretty exciting! Hey Gaynor, if you click on the UK, you might be able to see your house!
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Starting November 1, I am joining 200,000 of my closest friends to write a novel in 30 days. This is what I did yesterday: I signed up at the National Novel Writing Month website. I have a user name! I have a local group I am connected to! I’ve even received e-mail from headquarters! [...]
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My favorite prison chaplain, Shannon, sent me a link to this site: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ . And, I am so going to do this! From my extensive five minute research on this site, I’ve discovered that this group is encouraging a nationwide effort to get writers to write that novel in a month. This method is an anti-ten minute [...]
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This post is a re-run of my first entry last June. I thought I would just review it — I’m not usually this sentimental . . . but I’m almost at my 100th post and the accomplishments of the last few weeks seem to suggest I should do this. So, if you are a new [...]
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If you click here, then you can sign up for the free first chapter of my first e-book: “Listening Lunch: The Hows and Whys of Audio Resources For Homeschooling Families”. Today this link was offered to approximately 30,000 subscribers of The Old Schoolhouse‘s Freebie Friday e-mail loop. Sometime in the next few days, the actual [...]
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Saturday night, at the Coffee House, my friend Jeannine pulled me aside. Jeannine is one of my dearest friends and she is a huge encourager. She is a mother of seven, homeschooling all but the oldest three. She is using a copy of my poetry writing curriculum, Critter Writing (which will be on sale this [...]
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On Saturday night, my church held a “coffee house” type arts event. We meet in a warehouse/industrial park, so it’s not hard to convert our “sanctuary” into a cozy open mike type place, with little tables and tea lights and a table of baked goods in the back. This was the third or fourth [...]
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5. I injured my fingers in a freak accident involving a ficus tree and a sweater shaver. The casts have still not come off. 4. My Advance Cooking required the simultaneous running of ten crock pots, my oven, my dishwasher, my toaster, the food processor, the mixer and the cappuccino machine. The subsequent power shortage [...]
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I discovered something new! How to establish my blogroll! I’m now firmly planted in 2003! If you’d like to be on mine, this is what you have to do: (this should take you less than 10 minutes!) 1) Leave a comment on this post 2) Write a sentence using at least three of the [...]
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This is my favorite time of year to cook. I longingly await the arrival of pumpkin, cranberries and squash at my local supermarket. I dream of the day that turkey is under a dollar a pound. I savor the intermingling smells of garlic, sage, thyme and onion as it roasts in an stuffing, simmers [...]
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Katharine Grubb is a successful homeschooling mother of five, bread baker, reluctant dish washer and part-time novelist. If she can find time in her busy day to write, so can you!