by Leslie Sholly | Jul 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
I present to you an annual tradition that is happening later and later: the best/favorite posts from the prior year, as picked by you (my readers) and me. YOUR favorites are simply the posts that got the most clicks, no matter when I originally posted them; MY...
by Leslie Sholly | May 29, 2018 | rants
Sometimes I think back to when I first started this blog–eight years ago, if you can believe it! I didn’t have a clue. I didn’t know how to get people to read it. I didn’t know anything about branding. I had never heard of SEO. I...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 21, 2015 | family
My daughter Emily, who graduated from Spring Hill College in 2013 with a major in Creative Writing, is an amazing writer of fiction and poetry. I’ve shared her prize-winning poetry with you here before, and she had her first short story published last year....
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 26, 2013 | Parenting, teenagers
I may have mentioned a time or two that I was an English major. So that meant I wrote lots and lots of papers in college. And college being what it is, I rarely wrote any of them until the night before they were due. I write really fast, so usually that wasn’t...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
I got an award, y’all! This comes courtesy of my friend Elizabeth Flora Ross, who writes at The Writer Revived AND is the founder of The Mom Pledge Blog. She’s an awesome writer and a wonderful mother to her darling four-year-old, and I admire her very...