This post? I really did think I'd arrived. I consider books at garage sales to be gold nuggets among the junk that usually surrounds them. I've purchased some of my favorite books at garage sales! However, today I got a cool email. A woman sent me a lovely note confessing that she had been Continue Reading
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You Really Do Only Live Once…
My kids and I were discussing this yesterday. You see it and hear it everywhere. Facebook, Twitter, texts, email, message boards. Yolo. So I have to ask. Why do we reduce something truly worth notice to a trite, annoying little acronym. "Yolo." Really? Then, if that's not enough, we just Continue Reading
Camp NaNoWriMo!
Tomorrow I climb on the cyber bus to Camp NaNoWriMo. Well... for me it is almost today. I'll be starting at 12:00:01. Here, I'll join my other campers around the campfire and swat at the mosquitoes that try to suck the life from our stories. I'm sure there'll be a few letters written "home" (i.e. Continue Reading
Memorial Day 2012
He was once a little boy, toddling around the room. She once sat on her daddy's lap and listened to stories of brave princes fighting for their kingdom. He once had a voice that cracked at all the wrong moments. She once wore a prom dress and took her father's breath away. They endured boot camp, Continue Reading
Forty-Two
It's a good number this year. First, it is my friend, Amy's, favorite number. She's getting married this July, so that makes it pretty cool. It is also the number of years I will have been alive by the time that wedding takes place--eight days after my birthday. And, it is the number of Continue Reading
Well, Duh!
Sometimes I question my intelligence. Hush. I like the word sometimes rather than "most of the time." It's a quarter of the words! HALF the syllables. I'm being efficient, concise, brief, succinct. Really, I do. Question my intelligence that is-- often. There. That's a better Continue Reading
Quote of the Day
"You're talking about the American Dream. You find something that you love, then you twist it and torture it, trying to find a way to make money at it, spend a lifetime doing that, and in the end, you can't find a trace of what you started out loving." ~ Hope Floats (Justin) How many people do you Continue Reading
If I Had a Mantra…
It'd be simple (mantra in the definition of a "truism" rather than some Hindu type religious thing). Life is short; live it fully. This is the essence of Thoreau's words in Walden. “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of Continue Reading
What If…
The glass is just a glass? What if it isn't half anything? I mean, it was a nice little object lesson once upon a time. Now it's just annoying. I hate it when people ask me if I see life with a half full or half empty glass. Wanna know the truth? I don't see it either way. It's life, not a Continue Reading
Dystopia
It's huge. I mean, something had to replace vampires eventually, right? Susan Collins with her Hunger Games trilogy ensured that the dystopian genre received renewed interest. The good news is that usually this brings out new ideas and interest as other authors are inspired--sometimes driven-- to Continue Reading
1000 Hours of Research Ahead
Editing Schmediting
I have a new theory. Editing is overrated. I mean, we're all about being "real" these days, right? People get all bent out of shape with the nice perfect blogs with the gorgeous magazine quality pictures and nary a stray hair or dirty sock in sight, right? People want to hear about how you Continue Reading
