by Missy Stevens | Books and Writing
I’m an hour and a half from home, and I’m not thinking kind thoughts about the people sitting around me. They breathe funny. I nearly hate them. I don’t know them, but I am certain they are wretched souls. This happens to me when I leave. It happened...
by Missy Stevens | Books and Writing, Family, Fitness
Here we are, the eve of a new year. At the house of Wonder, Friend, we’re walking confidently ahead: hearts full of hope, heads full of ideas. A wink to 2010, a prayer for 2011, and we’re off. On the one hand, I don’t get too sentimental about the...
by Missy Stevens | Books and Writing, Family
I need to pick your brain. Not like a zombie or anything. More like a high school newspaper reporter who talks around her subject a lot before getting to the real questions. This is not a rhetorical post. I want you to send me your thoughts. I’m mostly...
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by Missy Stevens | Books and Writing
Today’s post is a bit off the beaten path for Wonder, Friend, because my friend Christina from A Closet Writer asked me to take part in her new series, The Blogging Mavens: Blogging For All! How could I say no to that? I am now a Maven. My kids and husband are...
by Missy Stevens | Books and Writing
That, up there, the title of this post, is indisputably wise counsel from an indisputably wise writer. We just aren’t sure which wise writer, exactly. Most say William Faulkner, and some say Mark Twain. And some say nobody ever really said it at all. Whoever...
by Missy Stevens | Books and Writing
I love to read. I need to read. I can’t properly explain my love for the written word. To someone who enjoys a good book now and then, or someone like my smart, adorable husband who has a bent more to magazines (horrid, geeky things that he reads cover to cover,...
Lapsed homemaker. Looking to hire a full-time housekeeper who will work for the sheer joy of a job well done and free coffee. Interested parties, DM please. 
