Tonja's Musings

Of all of the posts I'm writing for this A to Z Challenge, this one is the most relevant for bloggers.  When I went to a one-day co...

Our individuality is expressed in the way we write - in the genre we choose to write in, the characters we develop, the tone and voice ...

If you an aspiring writer like me, make it your business to hone your skills, improve your writing, do things that inspire you and feed ...

In my grant-writing class, I was given the opportunity to do something I didn't expect: write a grant proposal to fund my own resear...

Until now, I never considered doing freelance writing. Since I started taking my grant-writing class, I'm starting to think this is ...

At a normal kind of job at work, you wouldn't make excuses for not doing your job. You might - people do - but it doesn't exonera...

Not that definition of duplicity!  I'm referring to the old school (perhaps archaic) definition - doubling.  Maybe duality is a bet...

One thing I've done recently is write a CV for myself.  I had to do it as an exercise in my grant writing class because I am writing...

Today I have a dual post:  A to Z Challenge and Insecure Writer's Support Group.         I write historical fiction. In my ...

I know Accounting isn't the most interesting topic to start off with for the A to Z Challenge. But if you are treating your creative...

I met with the director of my graduate program earlier this week.  I was really worried about my physical limitations, but everything seemed...

The A to Z Challenge was very challenging for me.  In other aspects of my life, April 2012 will go down as one of the worst months ever.  I...

My little guy got a lesson at preschool last week.  He learned about the number zero.  He proudly told me, "Zero means nothing!...

I can't carry a tune, but my babies never minded.  My favorite mommy moments were when I held each of them in my arms and sang to th...

I'm not sure what it is about wagons, but all of my kids loved them.  We have the kind with the side rails that come off.  My boys a...

Do you remember Underdog?  I have the t-shirt.  When I wore it one day, my youngest asked who that was on my shirt.  I told him about Un...

The Terrible Twos is a term everyone probably knows.  It's the proclivity for  two-year-olds to burst into a tantrum when they are u...

Or maybe sleep deprivation.  I have only gotten about four hours of sleep a night since Sunday night.  I am so done, I can't thin...

My favorite post from last year's challenge was my P post about Edgar Allen Poe and how awesome Vincent Price was in the Poe movies ...

Not the Queen of England....  I grew up listening to Queen.  By the age of seven, I was howling, "Beelzebub has a devil put asi...