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Writing in Nuggets

April 24, 2023 Crystal Rowe

I’m in the kitchen making corn chowder for dinner. Our evening is packed with dance and gymnastics and I have an hour to make sure everyone has everything they need. As the onion sizzles in the butter on the stove, I feel a deep urge to document the intoxicating smell. Something about cooking always gives me a deep desire to write. I grab a pen and write messily in my journal, in between stirring the onions and slicing cucumber and apples for a snack. Hopefully I’ll be able to capture the essence of this moment when I have time alone, but for now the scribbles are worth more than the blank page.


I wish I could tell you I have a solid writing routine. That I wake early to write before the kids wake. Or that I stay up after bedtime to journal about the day. Go to my home office every afternoon while my kids play silently on their own. But none of that happens every day. Heck, most of that never happens at all. 

As a homeschooling mama of two tweens, uninterrupted time is hard to find. It’s not because I don’t prioritize writing. It’s simply because no day looks quite like any other. I don’t have regular times at home alone. My husband works from home. Except when he doesn’t. I don’t have an office outside the house where I can escape. I do a lot of writing at public libraries when my kids are at nature class, dance lessons, or gymnastics workouts. 

For a glimpse at what writing looks like in this stage of life, head on over to the Literary Mama blog!

Literary Mama

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