My husband loves the quote, “How you do anything is how you do everything.” I don’t always agree. I know that when there is something that I care about I put more effort toward it. When I was coaching I was all in, worked to be the very best I could be at my job, but then I’ll admit, other parts of my life suffered a bit. I was once a perfectionist. I even used to rewrite my math homework. Though it might not be for the best, I have learned to let some things go. I just can’t keep up. There is no way that I could do everything the way that I would like it to be done, because I also like to do too many things.

How about you?

WRITING PROMPT #1: Put “How you do anything is how you do everything” at the top of the page or blank document and start writing.

WRITING PROMPT #2: I always….

WRITING PROMPT #3: Clare looked at the room and…

WRITING PROMPT #1: What does Memorial Day mean to you?

WRITING PROMPT #2: What does the American Flag mean to you?

WRITING PROMPT #3: Collin looked up at the flag and…

I finished the first draft of my young adult novel this month. I have a long way to go but the bones are there, and it feels good. This first draft is quite different compared to the first draft of my memoir, Back on the Court, mainly because a majority of that draft was written by hand. It seems crazy now, but I did like putting actual pen to paper.

I couldn’t cut and paste and adjust words, thoughts and paragraphs with ease like I can on a computer, but I could pick up the papers and feel them and then spread them on the floor, look at them, and move them around until they fit where they belonged. I liked seeing and organizing the madness. Recently, I found pictures from that time, so many years ago, when I escaped to a cabin on the Washington coast and gathered all the bits and pieces of my writing and pulled them together. It’s hard to imagine doing it that way again, but somehow it worked and I managed to take that rough draft and create a book.

Do you like to write on your computer or on good old-fashioned paper?

WRITING PROMPT #1: When I write by hand…

WRITING PROMPT #2: When I write on my computer…

WRITING PROMPT #3: Bailey sat down at her computer just as…

We all have cell phones these days. Phones that we almost never use to make phone calls. They probably shouldn’t even be called cell phones or mobile phones; they should be called mini mobile computers, since that’s what they are.

I try not to use mine often. But with emails and Instagram, I spend more time on it than I’d like. Sometimes I wonder how much more I would get done if I just turned it off all day. But then I think, what if my kids call? What if my parents call? And of course, I leave it on. It’s hard to imagine that twenty-two years ago when I was pregnant with my son, I packed up my Volkswagen Vanagon with my two-and-a-half year old daughter and boxer dog and drove more than 2500 miles to southern California and back (only broke down twice) with no cell phone.

And I survived.  Unfortunately, now it’s hard to imagine a day without my cell phone by my side.

What about you?

WRITING PROMPT #1: Write about your relationship with your phone?

WRITING PROMPT #2: What would you do without your phone?

WRITING PROMPT #3: Olivia walked into the little glass booth and looked at the black box with a dial of numbers and cord hanging from it and then…