Dancing Word Writer’s Network has been kind enough to offer me a writing column on their website. Follow the link and click on Dancing Word Writer’s Ink on the left. The fourth column down, Welcome to “Chocolate, Tea, and Ponder With Me” is my column.

Annie McDonald offered me this opportunity – thanks Annie! I hope you will all stop by and check out my musings from time to time. The plan is for this to be a weekly column.

In other writing news, this is proving to be a busy summer. I have three major projects I’m working hard to complete before the ACFW Conference in September. One is almost finished and ready for submission, the other a close second. The third, is going to take a bit longer as I still have about half of the book left to write.

I’m planning to attend a writer’s retreat in August, as well as, the writer’s conference in September. This retreat will be a first for me, but I’m looking forward to brainstorming with author friends and also see the sights. I’m hoping to bring my family along, but my two adult sons will probably be working, and whether they can get away or not remains to be seen. Sigh. I miss family vacations.

I think that’s the hardest part about change. Some changes are good and exciting, while others bring to an end something I truly enjoyed. I love traveling with my family. When I think back on it, we’ve been to a lot of places over the years. I have great memories of our trip out west and down south, to Niagra Falls and Mackinac Island, to Disney World and the Holy Land Experience. We’ve explored forests and caves, mountains and oceans, man made parks and God made wonders.

And I wouldn’t trade a single memory for all the money in the world. But alas, time does move on, and change is bound to happen. This column, for instance, is a good change in my writing life. Along with this blog, it gives me an outlet for my ponderings. I hope you’ll all come to visit me there – and check out the rest of the Dancing Word site.