Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways! Romans 11:33 NLT I love the invitation of the Advent season to take each day to focus on Jesus and God’s redemptive plan. I did not always mark Advent. It really was …
Reflecting on 2020–Preparing for 2021
My 2020 word was breathe. It was just the word I needed to come back to time and time again. I learned to breathe through uncomfortable postpartum changes to my body. I learned to stop holding my breath while I sat and worked endless hours on the computer with a newborn on one arm. I …
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 …
Dr. Mon's Creative Space 