April Starr at The Flourishing Abode is the randomly chosen winner of a copy of Anne Bogel’s new book, Work Shift. Congratulations, April! You can get your gift by contacting Anne here.
For me, writing happens very much in the moment. When I write about my earlier years, memory alters reality too often, and what life was really like when our children were young or we were first married can get either a gloss or a tarnish it did not truly have at the time. Starting next week, I plan to start a new series called Past Blast. I will share some writing from the years before In My Kitchen, In My Life existed. Much of it is about my life then — the time of toddlers and homeschooling and soccer and training the Offspring in civilized living and crumbs in the butter (although we still have that) and all the wonderful and awful stuff that makes up family life. The first entry, next Monday, is Channelling Olivia Walton, and Other Ways I Operate My Life. I am terribly aware that although the bulk of our family-raising years are behind us, there is not yet enough proof in our pudding to know if we got it right, or at least right enough, but I hope you find it worthwhile to read glimpses into the life of this fellow traveller. Perhaps you will find a little encouragement or an idea to smooth your own way.
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