What I’m Up To
carriejonesbooks Last week, I was in Georgia helping my daughter who had surgery. She’s totally fine! Thanks to everyone for asking. While I was there, I had an epiphany. Ever since…
Marsie’s Monday Motivation
Leaning Into Fear in 2020
We all have times in our lives when fear gets the best of us, when we don’t know what’s going on in ourselves or in our world. Our thinking becomes…
Revising Doesn’t Always Have to Be Scary
Yesterday, I shared this with my class at Write! Submit! Support! at the Writing Barn and I thought I should share it with you all too. It’s about revising and…
Elf on the Shelf is a bit Naughty Because He Lives at My House
The elves arrived at the house today, but there was a lit of an incident. No worries! They will be all set to keep watch and pursue hijinx tomorrow, much…
Writing Without Labels
I was just doing a visiting residency at a great school in Vermont and a seventh grader said to his teacher, “Okay, Boomer.” Full disclosure: The teacher was thirty-six years…