Can You Win By Losing? Sometimes, Yes

I’m thrilled to have Rachel Thompson back for another guest post to discuss her experience with the naysayers who tried to keep her from writing. You can read my post on the same topic on her website here.    Your writing isn’t fit for publication.  You need to stick to…

This is the Reason We’ve Lived in Shame Long Enough

Guest post by Rachel Thompson This article first appeared as a guest post on the amazing Nicole Lyons’ The Lithium Chronicles and is reprinted here with attribution and her permission Every morning, as I drive my child to school and back, I pass an old brown El Camino parked in a random…

It’s Normal to Worry This Much, Right?

It’s Normal to Worry This Much, Right? Tales From a Chronic Worrier,  Guest Post by Beth Schulman I work hard at being a devoted mother, teacher, sister, and friend.  But, I often fall short, despite my good intentions.  It’s tough balancing all our roles in life. The one role I’ve…

Branding 101 For Authors: What you Need to Know

Guest post by Rachel Thompson of BadRedheadMedia By Rachel Thompson Today I want to discuss a basic concept that seems to confuse most authors: branding. Branding sounds like one of those scary, nebulous marketing terms that threatens to suck out your soul or turn you into The Borg. It’s not. Branding really…

Fight and Flight

There are many times during motherhood when I have felt the fight and flight response which is why I asked my good friend Kelly about Mother Warriors right before her first grandchild made his grand appearance into this world. I knew she would offer her own unique perspective of what…

Rainbow Warrior

If I say “Mother Warrior”, you say/see/think/feel, etc… I asked Brad the same thing as Jeanne Hewell-Chambers and assured him that any interpretation would be fine. He could write a memoir piece, an essay, take a photograph… Honest, Brad, anything! What came next was a series of emails from him: What…