In my previous post, I explained how I set goals and got to work on my ideas for my children’s book. In the next few posts, I will walk you through how I organized my ideas, how I proofread and edited my story, and how I read through my first proof copy. Before I get…

In my first post, I told you I have been working on a project that came from a Big Idea. So, by now you’re probably wondering just what was my Big Idea. Allow me to share! My Big Idea was to write a children’s book chock-full of colorful illustrations! And it sure took a long…

Have you ever had a big idea? One that seems so impossible and unreachable you don’t know where to start? If so, you have probably realized that big ideas can be pretty difficult to see through to the end. A big idea often stays just that… a big idea. It gets forgotten and lost after…

I have been hearing echoes of my grandmother’s voice over the last couple days, reading, “I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am.” If you have school-aged children or grandchildren, you probably know that this past Friday, March 2nd, was the birthday of the beloved author Dr. Suess and…

Who doesn’t love a good story? Stories are a great way to share a part of ourselves with others and for others to share a part of themselves with us. Stories are how people connect with each other, engage others, and start to understand what it’s like to stand in someone else’s shoes. They help…

As a family we’ve always loved stories. We read together, listen to audiobooks when we travel, and have bookshelves filled with books. So it makes sense that we would move from reading stories to also creating them, which became a small part of our Friday Fun Night entertainment. We combined that with the budding desire…