Do you ever have a day where you just come up blank?

Today, I was immersed in the joy of using a brand-spankin-new software system for my parish’s ministry scheduling. We’re not a very big parish, but wow, is ministry scheduling the bane of my work there!

I was excited and dreading it in equal amounts.

After about four hours of work and finagling, I was all happy and proud of myself for the work I’d done.

I walked away from my laptop and went to surprise my seven-year-old by picking her up from school.

In the hour (or less) while I was away from my computer, the work I did…vanished. Gone. Even support, in all their wisdom, couldn’t put it back together again.

So here I am, after another hour (or two) of work (thank goodness for a dinner miracle), with the work finally done that wasn’t supposed to take even close to that long.

I have a blank page (or screen) in front of me, and no idea of what to put on it in the five minutes I have left in my working day. All the topics I have slated to cover here take more brainpower than I have left.

I thus declare it open forum on the topic of blogging.

Go ahead, ask away in the comments.

I can’t promise an immediate answer, but I will answer. And maybe you’ll inspire a future post.

Shameless plug: if you haven’t already registered for the Catholic Online Writers Conference, you’re missing your chance to have my full attention! I’m teaching not one, but TWO, forums this year and doing at least that many chats. I’m not an expert, not by a far shot, but I’ll share what I know and point you in the direction to get started. (If you’re an expert, get on over there