by Terra Osterling | May 12, 2013 | How I got "here", Motivation
Moms give us life, and they also teach us how to live. There’s the heartfelt stuff, and the truly gushing moments at graduations, weddings and births. But the real lessons? These are in the mundane day-to-day admonishments, chore assignments, scoldings, and...
by Terra Osterling | May 5, 2013 | Business of Freelance Writing, How I got "here", Old jobs, Writing
Over the twelve years that we have lived in our house, my home office has at one time or another occupied three out of four bedrooms. For years I had one front bedroom to myself for books, computer, and casual writing. Then my husband and I decided to share a home...
by Terra Osterling | Apr 7, 2013 | How I got "here", Storytelling
Last week I wrote about our sweet, easygoing dog. Well, we also have a cat. When Elsa was five weeks old, I picked her out of a feral litter born just outside the door of the rural office where I worked. Mama Cat had already produced a couple of litters with the...
by Terra Osterling | Mar 3, 2013 | How I got "here", Writing
In the third season of the Roseanne sitcom, Roseanne’s 37th birthday wish is for time, specifically to write. Turns out that she loved to write as a young woman, but raising a family took priority and as she gets closer to age 40, she wants to make a change. As a...
by Terra Osterling | Feb 24, 2013 | Business of Freelance Writing, How I got "here"
I love time travel stories. Back to the Future, Quantum Leap, HG Wells’ The Time Machine, Time After Time, Somewhere in Time, Slaughterhouse-Five, even the Terminator movies franchise. Whether by self-hypnosis, worm-hole, steampunk contraption, or DeLorean, the idea...
by Terra Osterling | Feb 17, 2013 | How I got "here", Poetry, Writing
Groundhog, you lie. Two weeks since your optimism, Then a northeast snowmageddon. Now, this: more shoveling, base layers, And a whiteout driving home from church. From your hidey hole, Whether in Punxsutawney or under my shed, You feign to predict our meteorological...
