Apologies and Future Blogs

I'm sorry for anyone actually reading this that my posts are not consistent.  I'm hoping to change this once the school year begins.

This summer has been a bit disjointed.

Everyone is being lazy. Last child is starting kindergarten next week. First child is starting high school. Middle child is in the middle.
I'm trying to practice and focus my writing to make a living freelancing as well as self-publishing a new travel chapbook for parents.
I've been resupplying three hikers walking to raise awareness for domestic violence and in memory of a friend of ours who was murdered Mother's Day weekend.  I may talk more about this in the coming weeks, and catch you up on the past three months.

I hope to also include more of my published writing from the past. Most of these are educational/curriculum related, and as I prepare to fly again for the second time in recent years, I'll plan on filling you in on my travel tips, my sightseeing and my anxiety.

Thanks for visiting and for coming back. I'd like to get it so you want to come back, so I'll keep trying.

Introduction and Welcome Travelers

I will be writing here under the name kbwriting. I have other journals and blogs and they're not quite what I want them to be. Hopefully, this will be. It is a work in progress and I thank you for sharing the journey with me.

I plan on everything written here to be original works and therefore, are copyright assigned to me unless otherwise noted.

It took me forever to come up with a title for this 'writing place'. I don't know why I don't like the word 'blog'. I don't think it's a bias. I have many friends who are bloggers. I just don't feel like one; perhaps that will change in time. I settled on 'Welcome Travelers' because I thought it encompassed everything I could possibly hope to write about: parenting and education, travel, consumer advice and rants, politics and political rants, my fiction, book reviews and my budding attempt at incorporating my photographs into my professional writing.

I am the mother of three children. I was a teacher; I suppose I still am, but without a formal classroom.

Our summer is so far uneventful.  Mostly. We are not taking a vacation this year (no money and hopeful for plans in the Fall), but we hope to have a vacation at home. I'm sure you'll hear all about it. Our youngest attended a pre-K program at her new elementary school and may visit with preschool friends at their playground playgroup. Our middle one is attending camp for two weeks this summer and may spend the night at his friend's house. Our oldest is volunteering at that camp and assisting me in resupplying my friends who are hiking 1000 miles in addition to test my sanity of living with a teenager. I'm sure you'll hear more about all of them and some of our activities as I get comfortable with sharing here.

Thanks for visiting and welcome travelers. Come back soon.