When so much happens so quickly and you have to take a step back
I feel like a circus performer trying to juggle more balls than I can keep up in the air. It is a matter of time before I drop one, two, three, or all of them! It happens almost every year (usually in the summer, maybe because the kids are home from school and I have...
Writing prompt one year celebration
My blog just turned one, which means it is the writing prompt one year celebration link-up! Every week I posted a writing prompt. You shared your stories, stories of loss, heartache, hardships, celebration, or transformation. It has been a privilege to share in your...
First blogoversary!
It’s a happy first blogoversary day! Thank you for being supportive, for your encouraging comments and words of affirmation, for letting me share stories, and thank you for sharing your stories through the writing prompt, through emails, or through Facebook. I...
I want to be a writer, how do I get started?
“I want to be a writer, how do I get started?” I find this question in my inbox often. I am a writer, but I am still in the beginning stages trying to sign with an agent. There are other accomplished writers – the ones I learn from – that have more experience than I...
Writing prompt challenge 1
My youngest daughter had surgery last week. We are still going through the recovery process, so I spend most of my day keeping up with her pain meds and making her comfortable. This means that I have not kept on top of the writing prompt really well the last few...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.