MUSE • Leslie Keenan

Spring Forward?

Posted by in Time

The day we change the clocks –  Spring Forward – is always the worst day of the year for me. Or rather the first day I have to be anywhere after we spring forward.   Add in a 4 1/2 year old who is attending preschool, and you can magnify that by a factor of ten, which this morning included about three drop-down-to-the-floor, scream-and-cry jags. “I’m just tired Mama!” she finally shouted. Yes, I was too. I’m always shocked by how we can all expect to suddenly have our days…read more

Mar.12
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Finding Time to Write

Posted by in Writing

From my Newsletter, Spring 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The issue I’ve been finding my clients struggling with lately is finding the time to write in the middle of your life. How can you make time for it? The key is, you have to make writing your top priority, and commit to your schedule no matter what it is – keeping in mind that your highest priority may not take up the most time. So what does this look like? Well, I can use myself as an example here. Since I came back…read more

Dec.06
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Starting again

Posted by in Writing

I tried to blog. I really did. But I didn’t like the way it looked and couldn’t spend time making it pretty. And then my laptop got stolen and it was really hard to keep posting, mostly because it’s hard to type at a desk with a two-year-old in your lap. But now I have a pretty new laptop, and a pretty new website thanks to Jon Leland and Combridges. So I am starting over. Plus, after telling all my writing students over and over, “If you are writing today,…read more

Jun.01
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