Missy Stevens
And the Walls Come Tumbling Down
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 at the end of...
Away We Go, Smack-Dab Into 2011
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 changing of the...
Childcare for the Stay-at-Home Mom
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 interested in...
The Blogging Mavens: Mechanics of 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 not...
Kill Your Darlings
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 said it,...
Wonder Why Wednesday: I Love to Read Edition
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, every...