“Why do we always have to use a coupon to buy clothes?” laments my eleven-year-old daughter. “I want them today.” “You know we have a clothing budget. We can get more for our money if we wait until the item is on sale and we have a coupon,” I try explaining once again. “Everyone else’s…
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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…