Hello!



This is me in one of my many "hats!"

 This is my first blog. It is about 15 years overdue. I am a writer by night and a marketing consultant by day. And those are just my "jobs." I also have three children, a husband, and a 116lb bundle of canine love (a Great Dane named Charlie). I have a home to keep, two yards to garden, a soccer team to coach, a Writer's Group to attend, and chores and errands and sleep (the latter happens sometime after the moon is already descending behind the Reno foothills).

But this is my life. And this Blog is going to be about my life, which could one day discuss my profession, or my passion, or an event or an anecdote or maybe even a chapter from my latest manuscript. I chose the title "Writes and Wrongs" because every day I am writing and learning and writing about what I am learning. As a mother I am constantly updating my methods in parenting and discipline and patience. As a wife I learn more about myself and about love, loyalty and commitment, plus patience returns with understanding and forgiveness.  Not that every time I have a learning experience it's because I feel something went "wrong." But when things do go wrong I am very introspective and try to better myself or at least be prepared lest it happen again.

One of my clients recently shared with me that she wears so many hats throughout the day, sometimes she doesn't realizing there is a tower of hats swaying above her head, weighing her down. Boy can I relate! With all the hats I wear, it is important that I try to keep just one hat on at the time. So I can focus on the task at hand. I can't tell you how many times I have had a stack of crazy Kentucky Derby type hats on top of my head, so heavy they end up falling down and for me to pick them back up and put them in their place takes a whole day in itself!

Even now, as I wear the hat of "Blogger" or "Writer," two of my children appear one at a time asking me questions, putting drawings in front of my laptop screen, then walking away but still hollering "MOMMMM!" from another room. So when I lift my fingers from the keys then I have to quickly switch hats, from "Writer" hat to "Mom" hat. Run DMC said it best: "It's TRICKY TRICKY TRICKY TRICKY... HUH?!?!"