In Creating

I wrote my dissertation, Womanish Ways, in about a year. I had the funding to concentrate on it completely without working or teaching, and I had the motivation to get it one before I started my first position as a professor. As a graduate student, it was a privileged position to be in. But as …

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Day 9: What Had Happened Was

While I didn't keep up with my blogging, I did write each day of week 1 of NaNoWriMo. I started week 2 with just a little writing on Day 8. And then came Day 9. Day 9 brought with it the perfect storm of personal, professional, physical, and emotional challenges that led me to wave …

Days 4 & 5: Writing Appetite

While I haven't exactly maintained momentum to blog every day (but close--give me some credit!), I have kept my turtle pace going on my projects. Slow and steady. Slow and steady. Now I do know that slow and steady does not "win" NaNoWriMo, but it does create appetite. It is kind of the opposite of …

Day 3: Yesterday’s Realization

While I did not blog, I did write last night in continuing a slow start to NaNoWriMo. I'm well behind my usual pace for this venture and realized I can no longer be a night time writer. This is sad news for me! In my previous attempts at this challenge, I have almost always written …

Writing as Remedy

Day 2 of NaNoWriMo, and I'm already writing about loss. At first it surprised me, but of course it should not have. This is the week we remember the life of our middle son who is celebrating his seventh heavenly birthday. While my typing did not take me into the journey of infant loss, I …

And So It Begins Again

There are projects collecting dust on my desk. With each week of the semester that begins, I'm met with more to do and the projects I care about get pushed further and further back on the desktop. Then comes November, and NaNoWriMo calls. I was not (really) thinking about participating until my husband asked a …

I AM: Does It Take a Miracle?

In John 4:46-51, Jesus was back in Cana, the same place where He had turned water to wine. He was approached by an official whose child was terminally ill. The official had heard Jesus was in town and went to Him. He asked Jesus to go with him to his home to heal the child …