Posts Tagged: milestones

Laundry or Writing?

“What keeps you from writing?” questions keynote speaker, during a writers conference in late March. “The laundry,” one mother replies. The laundry? How old are your kids? I wonder. The speaker wonders the same. “How old are your kids?” he probes. “Four teenagers and one husband,” she boasts. I hear the audience’s collective surprise. I haven’t…