It's a big day.
Head Case is available!!  You can buy it!!!  (If you see it on an actual shelf, please let me know...pictures would be appreciated, but not mandatory!)  I'm so grateful to all my writing friends, teachers, and the people at Roaring Brook. 

Also, not so momentous to anyone but myself:
After a very much needed hiatus from all things internet, it is time to blog again.  My decision not to blog was not political at all (as many people have asked)...just a need to rest.  Seriously,  I really needed to rest.  After so many months of constant work, it felt great to get away and play.  With the kids. And words.  

I think I was feeling something like burn-out.  When volunteers over do it, I call it "the liability of caring."  People who volunteer too much often experience stress and thus bitterness when their sacrifice begins to carve into their lives.  They begin to resent the place we care about the most.

I didn't want to feel that way!  But I knew the signs!

So my Jewish New Year resolution goes like this: Achieve BALANCE.  Write.  Work.  Play.  Rest.  Read the books on the gigantic pile next to my bed.   This year, as many of you know, I've had the pleasure of helping to market and sell Ron Wolfson's GOD'S TO DO LIST.  It's a great book that talks about what we can do to repair the world.  We can do the very things God does in the Torah to make our world better.  It's a simple message, one that is appropriate this time of year and for all people, for all faiths.

Part of the balance: Make this blog purposeful!
Tuesdays: I'll stick to craft.
Thursdays: REading and my other hat, the shop girl's life....


Enjoy the week!