Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

Food is one of my love languages, so here in our time of crisis, I've turned to my kitchen to prepare comforts for myself and my fami...

I blog mostly as a form of reflection, a kind of public journaling, where I record the details of my writing life and can look back on my jo...

Welcome to part three of the Bryant Disney+ project, in which the youngest Bryant and I watch all the animated features in chronological ord...

For me, there is a fierceness to motherhood, a mama-bear willingness to fight. As soon as I gave myself over to being someone's mom, thi...

Well, that went fast. Eighteen years sounds like a long time, but when you spend it raising a daughter, it goes by in a blink. I delivered...

As I continue to find and refine my writer's path, I've decided to try out the DIY MFA Book Club , seeking out new inspiration and n...

April and May are milestone months in the Bryant family. Three of us have birthdays (me, the youngest child, and the pup). Both our dating a...

As I write this, I have been sick for eight days. I have a 101 degree fever and I feel as if I'm underwater. My poor husband has been d...

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Friday has gotten complicated around here.  The Mom is exhausted from a week of mom-ing and teaching and would like to sit on the couch ...

This week, I'm participating in "February with a Twist" a project +Becket Moorby has organized through the  +Flash Fiction Pr...

Dear Grandma Liz, Nice trick, dying on your eighty-eighth birthday.  A nice symmetry to that.  And the two eights, like infinity symbol...