writing

Playing Dictionary

When I was a teenager I was introduced to a fun game at a youth event. Dictionary consisted of breaking up a group into teams. Each team would be given a word from a dictionary that no one in the group knew the definition for. Only one team would have the definition, and all the… Read More Playing Dictionary

childhood, fiction, parenting, writing

Sheer Twaddle

When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how to write for children. After… Read More Sheer Twaddle