Happy New Year, everyone. May it be a good one for us all. Share this:EmailShare on Tumblr Pin It

Wendy, the Super Librarian, is doing it again. “It” in this case is the 2013 TBR Challenge, an opportunity to go through the TBR pile you’ve got stacking up either in physical books or on your tablet/iDevice and actually read some of them. Considering I’ve got a house filled with books I haven’t read yet and I don’t want to admit...

Relatives are what happen when you’re busy making other plans. (Be back soon, hopefully.) Share this:EmailShare on Tumblr Pin It

When I was thirteen, my mother took me to see a great star of the silent screen who was signing a coffee table book she’d done about the films of her and her sister. When we reached the front of the line, I couldn’t help myself and gushed, “Oh, Miss Gish, you’re my favorite actress! I loved you in Broken Blossoms and Orphans in the...

1) Dressage is very zen. Seriously. Those beautiful animals go through their paces can be a form of meditation. 2) Watching the Olympics is itself a marathon. Far too many hours of coverage conflicting with work, writing, knitting and small items such as eating and sleeping. You have to pace yourself, make decisions and realize you are not going to see...

I came back from the RWA conference in Anaheim with a much needed jolt to the creative batteries and my usual need to make lists. (I also over-indulged a little at Paper Source, but that’s another story.) I always always make lists after conference; I’m fired up and I’m going to change my writing! And my life! And the world! The last one’s a...

The weather is cooling down at last here in Southern California, though I’d be surprised if we didn’t have one more round of high temperatures and hot winds off the desert. One thing that is unusual is the high humidity we’ve been experiencing for the past month. It’s not unusual for the humidity levels to be in the 50 percent plus range...

Found this post from Kristen Lamb” on my newsreader about not treating your readers like they don’t have the sense God gave a goose. not treating your readers like they don’t have the sense God gave a goose. I’ve read more than one memo in my corporate existence — and quite a few Powerpoint presentations — abuse items one and three...

“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there –...

Currently doing some changes that the moment, so if the page looks weird, it’s probably because I’m messing with the code. Share this:EmailShare on Tumblr Pin It