River of Thoughts

Christine Royse Niles — Changing the world one word at a time

A New Gift For You

Feature Box

Being a writer can get overwhelming, can’t it?

I’m here to help. The Growing Writer’s Survival Kit offers you an ever-expanding set of tools to get through any roadblock you’re facing.

  • Looking to cut through the chaos? The Next Steps Planning Worksheet will help you through your next project.

  • Ready to launch your book? A Minimalist Guide to Book Launches will cut through the noise and get your work out there.

  • Feeling down? The Secret might encourage you when you hit one of those days when you just plain can’t keep going.

Get your FREE copies (and get notified when Time to Write is released):

Get it now!

Guanajuato Market

Guanajuato

Day 7 – Family Recreation Day

Dulce Refugio was blessed with an offer of significantly discounted tickets to a local waterpark, so today we were able to bring the kids for a rare treat. The shallow pool was filled with small slides and fountains that offered a great spot for the smaller kids to play. We also found a deeper pool with a volleyball net and plenty of room to horse around for the older kids. The park also had two big waterslides and a zipline. As we did at the park earlier this week, each of us paired up with two kids to supervise and […]

Day 6 – The Final Workday

With each day that passes, we find ourselves dragging into the breakfast room a little more slowly and a little more banged up. I can think of nothing more tempting than a breakfast of Advil and coffee. Busy schedule today! We planned another short concrete pour to get a couple more beams completed. We also had several projects underway that needed to be wrapped up, including the grates for the windows on the girls’ dorm, and the trenches for the new irrigation system for the soccer field. Another project we’ve been working on is reinforcing the drawers in each of […]

Closet Organizers

How many men does it take to build a shoe-rack?? šŸ˜‰