I just counted and this is day 29 of isolation for us. I mean, if you can call it “isolation” when there are eight people in the house. But yeah, March 12 was my …
I just wrote an epic Twitter thread with advice for parents who have suddenly found themselves thrust into homeschooling situations due to COVID-19. I promised to compile it here for easy reference, so here …
March 2, 2020 @ 11:13 am | Filed under:
The spring of 1995 was a landmark time for me: first baby, first book contract, and first modem. By the time that baby was crawling, I had discovered the AOL homeschooling boards and Growing Without …
This morning I’m trying something new.
I noticed that this week’s morning poetry-reading-and-writing-time kept getting interrupted (the writing part, at least) by scritchy angsting over my daily schedule—how to fit it all in, “it” being …
The sign that greets me outside the treatment room is ominous, and in context the words are sobering. But as I lie there on the table—for only a few minutes; the procedure is beautifully …
I lost my voice for a week, and with it my mojo. I’m better now but still tired and feeling (here at the end of the day) low in spirits, probably because I just …
1. Piano recital: accomplished. And swimmingly, I might add. Particularly sweet this year because the music school divided the recital students into smaller groups (fewer classes lumped together into each recital), which meant our girls’ …
October 3, 2014 @ 8:27 pm | Filed under:
I’m Melissa Wiley, but everyone calls me Lissa. I live in Portland, Oregon, with my husband, Scott Peterson, who writes comics and kids’ books, and our six kids. I’ve been writing children’s books …
This is pretty typical for one of my posts. Somewhere in the middle there is when I hit publish, so a number of those edits happened after the post went live. Which means …
