Title: Between the CEO’s Sheets Author: Charlene Sands Publisher: Silhouette Romance Publishing Date: June 2007, #1805 in the Silhouette Desire line Back Cover Tag: Boardroom, Bedroom…or Both? This one has been hanging around the TBR pile for a while, and it was honestly the first category I picked up after accepting the challenge. If truth be told, I...

A week and a half ago, the husband and I looked at a car our mechanic was offering to sell us. Now, a good mechanic is like gold and I trust his word when he says it’s a good buy for us. He’s known us for some time, works with us if we have a major repair and has been urging us for a while to consider replacing our junker. We loved what he showed us,...

Since it’s Martin Luther King Day here in the US, I thought I’d share a photo I took two years ago when I was in London. I was running about doing the usual tourist thing and paid a visit to Westminster Abbey since I’d just managed a rather successful visit to the archives of Parliament. (I was researching a private act from the 16th century and...

Status 100 words/100 days — I’ve managed 46 days. A bunch of it is just noodling, but when I started this on December 1, it was so hard to get those words out. I’d be counting every one, avoid the use of contractions, anything to get to that count. I was so out of practice with writing that it literally hurt to do so. Now, I can spew out 100...

It’s the start of a long weekend and I’m feeling curiously jubilant. Maybe because I’m starting a class tomorrow that I’m looking forward to. Maybe because I feel at this moment as if threads are starting to come together, like I’m waking up after a long sleep. Whatever the reason, the song that keeps popping up on my iTunes at the...

Work, writing, blogging, and everything else that goes on. Still trying to get the balance here and it’s escaped me somewhat this week. Ironically, I started a Time Management for Writers class this week through Orange County Romance Writers. Good class so far. For one thing, there are assignments we’re asked to do every day. Not big ones, but things...

So, suffered a bit of a crash and burn after Saturday. Too much looking at used cars and dealing with car salesmen — who don’t understand the meaning of the words, “I’m just looking” and “My budget is X” — too much dealing with other things and I ended up up crawling into the corner of the couch, reading, knitting and...

We’re buying a new car. Well, new for us. That’s the event that I alluded to earlier in the week. Realizing that our car had reached a point where it really isn’t financially viable to keep it running, we made the decision to be good adults and use the tax refund and my annual bonus from work to buy a good used car. Something sensible, solid and...

According to USA Today digital books outsold print the week after Christmas, the first time this has happened. Now, that surge is likely because people were going nuts with their new Kindles, Nooks, iPads, etc., but it’s not going to be the last. Ten years ago, I had no interest in eBooks; ereaders were not common place and most of the reading was done on the...

A couple of weeks ago, the husband and I made a decision that altered a couple of things, causing me to change some plans I’d been making for a vacation next year. It wasn’t an enthusiastic decision, but a necessary one. No nothing traumatic, but it has to do with a major purchase. Yesterday, out of the blue, we were offered a chance to make that...