She is nothing like Tracy Flick or Pedro, but I can’t help thinking of those two characters as I assist my daughter with printing her stickers for student council campaigning at school this week. 😂

Hopefully writing tomorrow, but spending today @shakykneesfest with my girl for her first concert. Seeing her fave band @MCROfficial tonight, and she is stoked! 🖤❤️🖤

Love this perspective. ❤️ #writingcommunity

Needed this today, and maybe you do, too! Work and my kids’ schedules have had me writing less lately, but planning to do so this weekend. #WritingCommunity

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With schools gutting their science & humanities programs and the tech industry keen to make us dumber, it’s time to revive the concept of the autodidact: self-education for the pure joy of learning. Read great books. Form study groups. Be passionate in the pursuit of knowledge.

Life moves so fast. Just found out my cool older cousin passed away today. He always told the best jokes and was the most fun at any family occasion. Will miss him, and hug my people extra tight tonight. ❤️

Both my kids have plans tomorrow night, so I’ll be alone on Halloween for the first time in years. Glad they’ll have fun and knew this day was coming, just not so soon. 😳 Still, am making the best of it and have a very fun costume planned…have wanted to do this idea for ages!

Home alone to greet the trick or treaters tonight, so taking the opportunity to wear a costume I’ve wanted to do for years: Taco Belle! Combines two of my favorite things, books and tacos. 😂 Bonus: the brewery near my house has a live band I can hear, too! #HappyHalloween!

My 13 yo emo princess has started a rock band with 3 boys from her music class at school. They’re playing their first gig tomorrow night. Should have seen this coming years ago, and can’t wait to hear them play! 🤘

She’s right. ❤️

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My fam has been battling a nasty cold the past few weeks and I’ve managed to evade it until now. 😝 In bed today, and my daughter just surprised me with the cutest pancakes she made herself. They absolutely brightened my day and I thought they might brighten yours, too! ❤️

My kids are older now, yet we still have a new theme/something different to bring to school for each of the 472 days leading up to winter break. How December can simultaneously feel so short and so long? I’ll never know. 😂

❤️ to those who observe this day- rewatching Sense and Sensibility tonight to celebrate. Impossible to pick a favorite of hers, but think I’ll reread Pride and Prejudice and Emma for the millionth time over the holidays, too. 😉 #JaneAusten250

My kids and I were at a stoplight on Holcomb Bridge Rd when this was going on yesterday. The driver flew by on the sidewalk and hit the car next to us. Was scary. 😳 Glad to hear nobody else was hurt.

Didn’t realize this was a thing. But, how fitting that I had to ask a random man to reach something for me from an upper shelf at the grocery store today. 😂

My favorite week of the year! Writing, reading, relaxing, and not quite sure what day it is… #amwriting #amreading

How it feels trying to get back into the swing of things today after a much-needed extended break. It’s the Mondayest Monday of the year. 😂🤦‍♀️ #WritingCommunity

Bad weather this weekend is keeping us from celebrating together in person, but wishing my sweet mom a happy birthday today and raising a glass in her honor from afar! 🤗🎂❤️