: About Me

Tracy Glockle is an assistant pastor's wife and mother of two toddlers-a boy (age 2 1/2) and a girl (age 1 +). Tracy has taught college English and writing for four years and previously worked for a newspaper for six years. She currently works part time in an academic publishing company. Tracy has had a number of pieces appear in various publications, from parenting journals to a teen magazine. In addition to her love of the written word, Tracy enjoys being a wife and mother as well as assisting in her husband's ministries.

To contact her, email at homekeepers.blog@gmail.com or visit her blog at homekeepers.wordpress.com (see MY LINKS).

My passion is ...

Christ-in me, in my family, in my work.

I know too much about ...

trivial, unimportant things.

My parents always told me ...

"You're not perfect."

My childhood ambition ...

to be a mommy, a ballerina, and a pediatrician.

My favorite memory ...

meeting my husband.

Why I write ...

"I write to know what I think."

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

listening to the wind rush, watching the rain fall sideways

My first job ...

I did a little of everything at my local newspaper.

My best moment ...

is when I'm not tripping over or running into something.

My inspiration ...

Psalm 72:18

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Getting Organized: Arranging a Routine Once upon a time, I thought that routines were ruts that the unimaginative tended to trod as they trudged through life. Ironically, the busier my life has become the more I have craved routine-and even found it absolutely necessary to survive. Yet, I have found that a successful routine is not necessarily the rut I fall into naturally, but rather the rut I make through a series of efficient habits. Selecting those habits and scheduling them into my day have been the framework for routines that have calmed the chaos of my life. Whenever I have found li...

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