Finding Balance in a Busy World Anyone else feel a bit "behind the 8 ball?" I certainly do! It seems like I’ve been racing against time all summer. Since June 1st, when I last wrote a blog, I’ve started two new ones, but they haven’t gone anywhere yet. So, what has kept me so busy this summer? Well, I want to say it’s all about family. My husband and I had the pleasure of meeting the fiancée of our oldest grandchild. We also attended the high school graduation party for our t

Friends, Hmmm, looks like I missed May altogether. I've been working hard to get the Bella book's illustrations done. But mostly I have been struggling to learn marketing. Education courses don't share marketing strategies...maybe I need to go back to school and get my MBA?? (ha, ha) But I especially want you to know that I am going to do a soft-launch of Winnie Acts Up AND a pre-launch of Bella's Nose Knows at the Terre Haute Arts Fair on June 14. I guess I'm still a little

Happy Halloween Y’All, This is my apology for staying out of your in-box in October. I had over-committed myself and had to realize that I didn’t need to become a social media guru author, or a workaholic author, or an all-around author/speaker/presenter author; after all, I’m retired. I just wanted to be me, write a few books, and share the strengths I have developed being an educator. As I have added years, I have discovered that I am similar to other humans in many ways. M

Well, I've done it again! I have begun the illustration process for a second book. Whew! This time it's a Bella book. She has an amazing nose that will be featured in this book, along with the many critters she gets a whiff of every day. Kids love to read about real animals, especially pets. My intention is to offer children (and adults) a picture book of scenes around a yard that a dog might smell, that they can wonder about. What animal made that hole? What critter climbed

Here I am late again after promising to write more often (embarrassed)! But I DID get a much-needed vacation to Texas with my 2nd oldest granddaughter, Natalie. We avoided the monsoons they had been having there but got caught in the heat advisory instead. WHEW!! (drip, drip) Natalie met family members she had only heard about. My brother, Jon, and his wife, Margie, hosted us at their Galveston beach house for the weekend where we fed porpoises in the bay and searched for she