Apr 30
1. I have to love a woman who admits she’s chronically unorganized; you give me so much hope. How, though, do you keep your writing life organized?
Thanks, I love giving people hope especially when it comes from my own ineptitude. As far as keeping my writing life in order goes, I have a fairly [...]
Apr 29
I’m reading Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude T. King because I want to (experience God, that is) and because someone on some blog I frequent recommended it highly. I wish I could remember who that blogger person is so I could thank him/her.
Last night, as I was highlighting and note-jotting my way through Chapter [...]
Apr 29
My writer friend Camy Tang is in BIG trouble for having info on her blog about this amazing source of chocolate and other exotic delights. The one pictured here is a Red Fire Bar, with Mexican ancho and chipotle chilies, cinnamon, and dark chocolate.
Apr 28
These words first plopped into my email from a someone on my AP English loop (I know, nerd-alert) as attributed to a Mensa contest. The ”contest” was to replace a letter in the word, thus creating a new word, and then provide a definition. The blog Take Our Word For It, says these were actually published in the Style [...]
Apr 26
According to recent news reports, Katie Holmes (aka Mrs. Tom-I’m-taller-than-my-husband-who-is-supposedly-holding-me-hostage-in-my-own-house Cruise) is secretly talking to Catholic priests.
Katie, millions of Catholics do this; they call it confession.
And, anyway, if I know what you’re doing, (and I’m so far down on the Cruise news food chain I’m not even a one-celled thingy), then———it’s NOT a secret.
And for more fun:
Hugh Grant was [...]
Apr 25
This kid is…so cute
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Cute doesn’t require a translation.
Apr 24
Thank you Harvard Medical School. One less reason for mommy-guilt.
They just released a study that breast-fed babies do not necessarily grow up to be thinner adults. So, I’m now free to practice some revisionist history in my kids’ baby books.
According to the AP article, researchers believed that the women’s recollections of breastfeeding (they’d been sent [...]
Apr 22
Seven years ago, on April 23rd, I became a grandmother, and my life changed beyond measure.
Bailey Ramon. A gift from my past, brought into the present, to change the future. Son of my daughter Erin and her husband Andrae, he arrived on an Easter Sunday.
I drove over twelve straight hours, from Louisiana to Kansas, with [...]
Apr 21
I’ve reached the sad conclusion that some days I spend more time writing about the fact that I’m not writing than I do writing the writing that I am writing about not writing.
And now I am going to drink my coffee and read about writing. Then, I will return to write about my reading.
Apr 19
When I was yet a babe in bloggerland, I found a button on someone’s site that tracked the number of abortions per day and the number of deaths in Iraq per day. Not exactly politically correct.
I decided to delete it since I wasn’t yet sure of the “direction” of my blog. Would it be [...]
Apr 18
It was time. The kid needed to go. If he’d been voted in another week, he’d have been reduced to pulling a Britney Spears to get more hair hysteria votes.
And had he made another week, I would have called for electric shock therapy or lobotomies for everyone who dialed his American Idol number. [...]
Apr 15
Some days I question my motivation for blogging. In my more honest moments, I’ll admit there’s some self-serving here in the restaurant of writing life—the immediate gratification of seeing my words in print without having to beg an agent or editor or publisher to read them first, the comments that are encouraging, and the awareness [...]
Apr 14
Talk about making me feel like a putz. I can’t even remember to take meat out of the freezer for dinner, and now this: a match made in the freezer.
“During the study, Domasin received shots and pills to stimulate egg production. Fertility personnel harvested the eggs, froze them, and after four months, injected [...]
Apr 12
In the Acknowledgments to Ransomed Dreams, you speak of a “proverbial boot” on your backside moving you from dream to novel. Can you, um, share this booting with us?!
Sure! That proverbial boot belongs to my husband, who was and is my biggest fan and the one who nudged me from hobby writing into a career. [...]