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1. B. Lynn Goodwin, author of Journaling for Caregivers, Launches her Blog Tour!


& Book Giveaway Comments Contest!

During the six years she spent caring for her mother, B. Lynn Goodwin found comfort in the journaling she did. She eventually began teaching journaling workshops and writing a book to guide other caregivers through journaling.

Lynn is also a teacher, editor, and writer. Her work has been published in Hip Mama; the Oakland Tribune; the Contra Costa Times; the Danville Weekly; Staying Sane When You're Dieting; Small Press Review; Dramatics Magazine; Career, Caregiving, and Self-Care NCDA Monograph; 24/7--a caregiving anthology; We Care; Families of Loved Ones Magazine (forthcoming); Kaleidoscope (forthcoming), and numerous e-zines and blogs.

Find out more about B. Lynn Goodwin by visiting her websites:
Book Website: http://www.writeradvice.com/ywmtdw.html
Writer Advice: http://www.writeradvice.com/

You Want Me To Do What? Journaling for Care Givers

By B. Lynn Goodwin

You Want Me To Do What? Journaling for Caregivers offers encouragement, instructions, and over 200 sentence prompts to help anyone start putting their thoughts on paper.

It is for current, former, and long distance caregivers. These are the people who take care of spouses, parents, children, special needs children, and themselves. It is also for professional caregivers including nurses, social workers, teachers, and anyone in the helping professions.

Published by Tate Publishing
Paperback: 160 pages
ISBN: 1606962973

Book Giveaway Comments Contest!

If you received our Events Newsletter, remember, we are holding a contest to win a copy of Lynn's book, You Want Me To Do What? Journaling for Caregivers, to those that comment. So, grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and enjoy the chat, and share your thoughts, and comments, at the end. We will randomly choose a winner from those who comment. Enjoy!

Interview by Jodi Webb

WOW:
Your book,

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2. Snowdrops

After yesterday's library blues-shuffle, I decided to post something more pleasant for today-- a drift of snowdrops down the street in my neighbor's yard: I don't know if the snowdrops I planted last fall will come up this spring, as they take awhile to establish themselves, but I hope for such abundance in the years to come. Lucia's "Little One" is named Snowdrop, and so she especially likes

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3. A playhouse of our own

Greetings! I have missed you all. Sure, I've been reading your blogs, but it's not the same as actively participating in the kidlitosphere. As you read this, we are preparing to return to Seattle from Victoria, British Columbia. Prior to visiting our relatives in Victoria, we spent a few days in a tiny town called Tahsis on North Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Bede and I won a week's stay in a cabin in Tahsis through Lucia's school auction. The school auction was my very first live auction, and so I didn't know to put my number down right after I had waved it around-- I thought I had to wait until the auctioneer called out my number. After we won the week's stay in Tahsis (and we'd had no idea where it was other than the description provided), I gave the number to Bede and said that it was safer for him to hold it. I doubt we'll attend the auction next year ( we'll go to the more financially feasible Family Night).

Anyway...

Remember the playhouse I wanted to build for Lucia? We'd decided to build it from scratch, using plans I'd ordered online. As the summer progressed, that option seemed less likely. In the end, my aunt and uncle bailed us out by getting for us a kit. It arrived the day that two of our beloved brawny cousins came to visit. My uncle and the two cousins build the playhouse/garden shed in a weekend. They were undeterred by the rain.

For perspective, here is what my brothers and I used as a playhouse when we were children:


Yes, we played in a doghouse. My grandfather had built it for our St. Bernard. The St. Bernard never used it, so we did. The doghouse was dark and windowless, but two children could fit inside it comfortably as long as those kids didn't mind resting their heads on their own shoulders.

After I moved to New York City, my mother and her boyfriend bought a house on the Maryland side of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. The house had a treehouse built onto the deck extension plus a gazebo in the woods below the house. The woods were filled with mosquitoes (note: it's a bad, bad idea to build a city on a swamp), but the gazebo had screens, and I spent a good amount of my visiting time sitting in the gazebo with citronella candles around me. Here's a picture:


Could those people in the photo actually be Ulric and Brad the Gorilla? Impossible! Brad is over 450 lbs. There is no way he could sit on a hammock without breaking it. But lo, here he is:


Ahem.

Here is the photo for which you've patiently waited:


Here is what the playhouse looks like from our bedroom window:



The size of the playhouse, including the porch, is 6 X 9 feet. It feels as if we've increased our living space. We're planning on putting window boxes or potted plants by the porch, and we need to clean up the dirt and mud tracked in because of the rain.

Now I can understand how Philip Pullman is able to write his books in a shed. Maybe I'll take my guitar out to the playhouse and give back a little of the love that's wafted its way over via supersonic car stereos and people bellowing "Car wash! Car wash!" for their various fundraisers.


In the upcoming days, I'll let you know about a new Saints and Spinners feature I'm developing.

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4. Little Flower



I know I said I wasn't going to post until September 1, but I wanted to show you a photo of the columbine that appeared in my garden in August. It's a gardening miracle, I tell you. The surprise columbine lifts my spirits. I've had a few setbacks this month, including the realization that I can't go to the 1st Annual Kidlitosphere Conference after all. However, I still have many blessing. This columbine flower is one of them.

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