Women Still Try to Have it All - It is Just a Matter of How You Do It

Motherhood trumps all other activities while the children are young. In her June column at LadybugFlights.com, Mother and author Amy Barnes describes how recognizing her children to be her muses helps keep her writing fresh and creative. By inviting us into her life, she encourages us to find our own.

(PRWEB) June 9, 2006 -- Motherhood trumps all other activities while the children are young. In her June column at LadybugFlights.com, Mother and author Amy Barnes describes how recognizing her children to be her muses helps keep her writing fresh and creative. By inviting us into her life, she encourages us to find our own.

Every writer knows what it is like to confront a blank white sheet of paper, nibbling her pencil and desperately thinking of something to say. How can she entice her muse to provide inspiration?

Mother and writer Amy Barnes has found her muse at home, among Lego ruins and Tantrum Tornadoes. It enables her to write her column with a fresh and often humorous approach reminiscent of an up-to-date "cyber" Erma Bombeck.

In her BabyBug column in the June issue of LadybugFlights ezine (http:// www.ladybugflights.com), Barnes introduces us to her pint-size muses: "Joel acts as the most vocal muse with Emily adding her voice mainly in the past few weeks. The saying "from the mouths of babes" has become so true in my world. From Joel's observations to Emily's first explorations of language, I get character ideas, story plots, and dialogue prompts."

She gives us a tour of the mythological world in which Joel and Emily are her guides. These children are being raised as cyberkids, at home on the internet as well as among the legos. As she shares the huge impact that her young and wide-eyed children's experiences have on her view of the world and her writing she invites us all to find our own muses in the antics of our loved ones. No matter how high Laundry Mountain is, a mother always has inspiration and vivid imagery at her fingertips.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this column is accompanied by photographs of these muses that far outshine any ancient statues.

About the Author:
Author and poet Amy Barnes is a LadybugFlights columnist whose Babybug musings about her family are a delight to mothers and others. She does her best writing around midnight, when her muses are sleeping.

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