Category Archives: Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop

The (Get Out of My) Bucket List (or The Top Ten Things I Never Ever Want To Do)

The (Get Out of My) Bucket List   1. You know how people are always telling horror stories about crop dusting in the grocery store, or waving at someone who is waving, but to the person behind them? I never want to do that again. Wait… 2. I have no desire, whatsoever, to learn how…

Ten Little Known Life Stories

I’m going out on a limb today, putting my self esteem aside, and sharing with you ten little known stories. Call them life stories, call them embarrassing moments, call them learning days… whatever you call them, I sure hope they make you feel better about yourself! (Sometimes my life is that of a sitcom. This…

The Extrovert: Ten Lessons Learned

I think I’m a situational personality type. There were times in my life when I was as introverted as I could be. All holed up in my first apartment with zero friends and a penchant for pizza rolls, I was the epitome of Introverted. I read books upon books, wrote in journals, painted watercolors, and worked in…

Operation Beautiful

I told you “You are beautiful”; You looked at me and poo-ed. I said “You are intelligent!”, And all you said was “Gooooo!” Dada is your favorite word, though your days are spent with me. My dear, my sweet, my darling babes, When will you speak with me? I hope and pray my words are…

2011 Trends I Am So Ooooover!!

1. Shortened words that are perfectly fine as whole words.  Totes, for example. I’m 29, not 14. I just can’t do it. I’m not hip enough for this trend, that’s clear. Source: middleclasshandbook.co.uk 2. Google+ What happened here? At first use, I really liked Google+, but I wasn’t really learning anything new that I wasn’t…

A Purple Poem and 12 Things 2011

I just finished putting together my “Best Of” post for 2011, set to post on Saturday. It was hard to choose, but also really fun to look back at the past year. I made a list of 15 or so posts that I want to read again and again. Until then, I found another link…

Happy Thanksgiving… from my nephew!

1.) Interview your kids…what do they think Thanksgiving is for? What are they thankful for? etc. I loved this writing prompt from Mama Kat this week, and I knew just who I would ask. Since my girls are still growing away in my tum tum, I thought it would be fun to interview my nephew….