If you follow me over on any of my social medias (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, and Threads), you’d know I am participating in NaNoWriMo again this month. For those of you who DON’T know what NaNoWriMo is, there is a wonderful and informative podcast on the subject if you click here. Full disclaimer though – the […]
Tag: life
It’s Not Fair
It’s a phrase we all say. IT’S NOT FAIR! As children, we yell it when we perceive a sibling or classmate is receiving something better than we were given by an adult. It’s not fair we have to do the dishes tonight. It’s not fair that they got the purple marker. It’s not fair that […]
The End
Some in the writing world are already aware of this about me, but not everyone is. Often, I write the ending of my books before I write much of the beginning. Sometimes, I do write other parts first. But more often than not, I have the ending finished before I have most of the book […]
You Matter
It’s just a small tag, the size of a business card with laminate that reaches out a fraction of an inch. But it’s a special tag as well. At the beginning of every school year, the tiny church I belong in this swath of the Midwest gives out the tags to students and anyone else […]
The Unexpected
I’m dealing with a great deal of a mental load right now. As you may already have learned, if you read my last blog post, Margo Murillo, one of my dearest and oldest friends in this little swath of the Midwest died unexpectedly this past Friday. I am still doing a great deal of processing […]
Mourning
It’s with a heavy heart that I write this. Tragedy has struck once more in my little world. A life has been sadly snuffed out. Margo was one of the first friends I had made at the tiny church I attend in my little swath of the Midwest. She was a teacher at the high […]
Journeys
Have you ever set out on a journey without having a destination in mind? I may not have done so on a road trip, but sometimes, especially on walks around my neighborhood or neighborhoods wherever and whenever I am visiting a new place, I often just go wherever my feet take me. Sometimes, we don’t […]
Didn’t go as planned
One of my favorite quotes about life is something I’ve posted a few times before. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy” I say that to myself every time things don’t go as planned. For instance, yesterday (or Friday, if you are reading this blog later […]
Locked Doors and Closed Minds
A friend of mine recently shared a saying his great-grandfather used to always say. It sounds similar to the sayings of all great-grandfathers, but it went something like this: “Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.” ~ Everett Taylor Thomas was one of Jesus’ disciples, according to the accounts […]
Open our eyes
Sometimes, when we’re writing our own stories, we tend to make ourselves look smarter and bigger and better. We close our minds to the ways of the world, accepting only a exclusive story of what has happened to us. We throw wisdom to the wind, as it were. It’s natural for us to become absorbed […]
K. S. Wood Writes 