After several weeks of research (preceded by several years of whining and begging), my husband and I brought home a brand new minivan this week. I was over the moon ecstatic. He was depressed. For me, this new vehicle represents freedom from the repairs, leaking fluids and weird grinding noises […]
Month: April 2016
So what I really learned was…
Last weekend was the 27th annual UW-Madison Writers Institute — my first “real” conference as a serious author. I’ve been to conferences before as a professional journalist. But even though many journalists are writers, the atmosphere could not have been more different. First of all, about 90 percent of the […]
What you miss the most…
My husband and I took the kids this year on a weeklong Spring Break to south Florida. And we had an amazing time. For one reason or another, we’ve never gone away for a full week in March. So this year, when we had the opportunity to spend some time […]