August 24, 2012 Family Stuff, Odd bits & pieces, Writing books, deadlines, desire, dreams, family, fiction, freedom, fruitfulness, goals, inspiration, kids, life, longing, manuscript, productivity, progress, vision, work

Landsick…

Have you ever been on a boat long enough to get your sea-legs, only to feel thoroughly sick when you get back on land? This is probably the best way I can describe how I’m feeling at the moment – though it has nothing to do with boats, land or throwing up. Shhh! Let me explain. […]

June 12, 2012 Odd bits & pieces, Travel, Writing goals, God, hope, humour, inspiration, life, manuscript, productivity, publishing, vision, waiting

Walking on aeroplane wings and other preposterous ideas

So I’m in an aeroplane. We are thousands of feet above mother earth. I look out the window and read this little gem printed on the wing… ‘Do not walk outside this area’ Oh really? Why ever not? I’m so glad they put that out there, because you know – I was just about to head out […]

March 30, 2012 Family Stuff, Writing books, creativity, deadlines, despair, dreams, family, fiction, focus, freedom, fruitfulness, God, hope, humour, novel, priorities, productivity, progress, waiting, words, work

Creature of the Night

I’ve always been an owl not a fowl, but with my kids on holiday – my nocturnal tendencies are getting out of hand. My days are filled with wipe this, feed that, mop this, carry that, tidy this, cook that, find this, pick up that, pick up that again, all to the tune of non-stop […]

March 8, 2012 Odd bits & pieces, Writing deadlines, despair, family, freedom, goals, life, pressure, priorities, productivity, work

Wet, muddy – but alive

The last week has been my ‘work deadline’ week in which I produce a monthly mini-magazine for our church. It involves some writing, a good bit of editing, some photography, some arm-twisting (to get others to write for me), a whole lot of design and layout and seriously little sleep. Did I mention that I don’t get […]

February 27, 2012 Odd bits & pieces, Writing family, focus, goals, hope, kids, longing, pressure, priorities, productivity, sick kid, waiting

The one that got away

I had a plan for today. I really did. It was rather good too. It involved getting kidlets off to school, then a solid hour writing stint on my project 2, some choreography for dance group tonight and quietly wrapping my brain around cutting our music for the dance we’re working on. After that was off […]

February 25, 2012 Odd bits & pieces, Prophetic words Christianity, despair, dreams, freedom, fruitfulness, gardening, God, hope, inspiration, productivity, progress, vision, waiting

Your winter is over

Today’s post is a little unusual, so bear with me. If you get to a point that you feel it’s not for you, you are most welcome to go make some tea and carry on with your life, or move on to the next blog. I won’t be offended in the slightest. Promise. In the December holidays, […]

January 1, 2012 Writing books, deadlines, dreams, family, fruitfulness, God, hope, productivity

Hopes & challenges… fertile soil for the DREAMS of 2012

Writing a new book? Not a problem. Cranking out a few articles per month? Completely do-able. Getting through my last 4 kid’s writing course assignments… Lovely fun. Working two jobs, being mom to 3 growing girls, being wife and home-maker? It’s part of what I’m built for. I could go on… My big challenge is […]

June 1, 2011 Writing creativity, deadlines, kids, priorities, productivity

Hey! Hush and wait your turn.

Its quite normal for me to have 3 small people, AKA my kids, all talking to me at the same time at any given time of the day or night. Sometimes my brain successfully follows all three threads, and can produce reasonably intelligent responses at more or less the right times. Other times? Well, lets just say […]

June 21, 2010 Writing fruitfullness, ideas, inspiration, productivity, time-management

Living a double life – confession

Before you start dialling the men in white coats – let me just say: I am not a secret superhero chick who runs around with my undies on the outside looking to clobber baddies. Let’s get that straight. I may turn into dragon lady when the clock strikes bedtime, but that is something between me and my kidlets […]

April 8, 2010 Writing despair, dreams, focus, fruitfulness, hope, productivity, publishing, vision

Fruitful waiting

All writers know what it means to wait. And wait. And wait some more… Waiting to hear from agents, publishers… All the while trying not to hope too much that this could be the one, this could be the Big Break. Only to have it all come crashing down in a two line form email. […]

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