by Lisa-Jo | Jun 21, 2013 | Five Minute Friday
Writing is rarely a matter of waiting for the muse. It’s mostly a matter of writing until the muse shows up.–> Click to tweet. On Fridays hundreds of writers gather here to write the muse into being. You’re welcome to join from your blog, your pen...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 20, 2013 | Motherhood
Son, here’s the thing. Sometimes come 9pm mama is just flat out done. So when you peer down from that top bunk bed eye to eye with me and question the end of your day with the everlasting, “but whyyyyy?,” a small world flashes before my eyes....
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 17, 2013 | Cheering for you, Motherhood
Mothering can be a lonely gig. For all we spend it surrounded by many tiny humans. And their big, gaping demands. And their tugging, tireless hands. We can tend to retreat, to hole up, to recede from life and each other because, let’s face it, just managing our...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 14, 2013 | Five Minute Friday
For the new folks around these parts, I should probably tell you about Fridays. So, here’s the skinny: every Friday for over a year hundreds of people have joined a kind of writing flash mob over here. We write for five minutes flat. All on the same prompt that I post...
by Lisa-Jo | Jun 12, 2013 | Just plain hard, Motherhood, Rabid fear of parenting
Sometimes you don’t realize you have a temper till you have kids. And then one night someone carves a pattern into the leather sofa. Or someone just dumps a pencil sharpener out all over the floor. After you’ve told them not to touch it. Or someone else gets out of...
