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Random Ramblings

Hello, Amazon!

November 24, 2008 by Caryn Leave a Comment

So I just set up my “AmazonConnect” thingy, which means that what I write here now appears—I think—below the description for Mama’s Got a Fake I.D.: How to Reveal the Real You Behind All that Mom. Pretty cool. Trouble is, I have no idea what to say right now. I’m writing because Amazon said, “You’re done. […]

Filed Under: Book Questions, Random Ramblings, The Book

Busy Blogging…Elsewhere

September 11, 2008 by Caryn 1 Comment

So, again, it seems I’ve been a bit neglectful of my own blog. This doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. My friend Carla Barnhill and I finally started up a blog—something we’ve been talking about doing for years! So you can check out some stuff we’ve been writing about over at The Mommy Revolution. But […]

Filed Under: Random Ramblings

First Day of School Eve

August 24, 2008 by Caryn Leave a Comment

So tomorrow my oldest son starts first grade. I’m a real mom now. I just packed his lunch, and now I’m about to set my alarm so we can all get up in time to get him to his bus stop, just down the block. I just wrote another check, signed another form, folded them together, […]

Filed Under: Holiday, kids, Motherhood, Random Ramblings

Voices: Lost or Found?

August 13, 2008 by Caryn 4 Comments

So I’ve been thinking about “voice” in the literary sense for a talk I’m giving in October to a bunch of leaders on writing (wow. THAT was clunky!). And it just dawned on me that one of the things that frustrates me as a mom is not only that we tend to lose ourselves amidst the […]

Filed Under: Motherhood, Random Ramblings, Speaking

I Got Nothing

July 18, 2008 by Caryn Leave a Comment

So after nearly a month of not posting anything here—because I’ve been squeezing every moment out of my days trying to make revisions to my book,  keep on top of my regular editing gig, line up some speaking things, help plan a Moms Night Out at my church, put at least some dishes in the dishwasher and some clothes in the washer, and […]

Filed Under: kids, Motherhood, Random Ramblings, Speaking, The Book

Mama Got Memed

June 21, 2008 by Caryn 3 Comments

Okay, so I got memed for the first time (more on this in a minute). Since I’m busy and in a blaming mood, we get to blame Al Hsu of InterVarsity Press editorial and book-writing-fool fame for tagging me and taking me away from actual work I need to do and instead addressing this. Actually it’s […]

Filed Under: Identity, Muse to Amuse, Random Ramblings

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