The writer-parent life can feel like trying to do ballet on a broken ankle in a bog.
We must marshal creativity, time, and funds like any other writer, all while feeding hungry mouths, cleaning up bodily goo, and pretending to be a tree. Or a squirrel. Or Maleficent.
But if we’re not going to quit writing—and since the hope and prayer is we’re parents for life—what other choice is there but to try our best to do both?
Read on for inspiration and tips on how we can survive (and thrive!) as writer-parents.
On Feeling Reinvigorated
We need to take a step back from our words sometimes, and focus on the life happening around us.
Writer-Parent Spotlight: JT “Jody” Morse
Here’s the second installment of the Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, featuring JT “Jody” Morse, a multigenre writer-parent who lives and writes with palpable passion.
Meals for snappy brains (on tight schedules)
How exactly do we get our kids to eat the 5 foods Harvard Medical School has linked to better brainpower and all-around health?
How stories can help teach kids about death
We rely on stories often in our family to explain difficult concepts like grief and death—and to give the ineffable a sense of meaning and permanence.
Literary Date Nights this May
I don’t know about you, but all these flowers in bloom have got me hot and bothered for a literary date night!
Writer-Parent Spotlight: Georgia Pearle Foster + Joshua Dewain Foster
Readers, I’m smack-dab giddy to introduce the new Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, in which writer-parents I admire answer some (hopefully) fun and thought-provoking questions about their lives as writer-parents.
For the first installment, I interviewed not one but two fantastic writer-parents: Joshua Dewain Foster and Georgia Pearle Foster.
We’re all entitled to our Titanic!
I can’t remember a time in adulthood when a topic has fascinated me as much as the Titanic fascinated me as a kid.
Peas and Carrots
Turns out writing while parenting isn’t easy.
Hell, turns out parenting by itself isn’t easy.