Archived Posts from: January, 2010

Book Review: Waxing Poetic about Peace

Filed in: Book Reviews | books    Tags: book review | Chip MacGregor | Lief Unger | Peace Like a River | Sandra Bishop
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Welcome to my book review space – every other Wednesday I plan to post my thoughts on a book I’ve read. These may or may not take the form of a “real” review: summary followed by skilled evaluation. Sometimes I may just “wax poetic” because a book moves my heart, whether or not it’s a [...]

Love Me, Hate Me, Just Don’t Eat My Socks

Filed in: Wild Ramblings    Tags: Castle | lost email | socks and dryers
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I have a Love/Hate relationship with email and have . . . oh, since about 1984, when my ex bought one of the first Macs, along with a CompuServe account. Heady days, the net back then. But even in a time before some of my readers were born, the ‘net ate email in the same [...]

Health Journey – Week 1: Svelting My Cares Away

Filed in: Health Journey | Life    Tags: Castle | creative energy | Health Journey | Stana Katic
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OK, let’s get this out of the way first thing: I will never be svelte. Stana Katic on Castle is svelte. I’m more . . . well . . . zaftig. I’ve not been svelte since I was four years old, and there’s no way I’ll be that thin. What I would like to do, [...]

Blogs Away!

Filed in: Contest Stuff | news   
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I started off January blogging like crazy, then just stopped. This time, however, I had a reason. Liz Bemis, writer and webmistress extraordinaire, asked me to take a short break while she made some much needed changes to my website, including the blog. A lot of it had to do with stuff you’ll never see [...]

Unstoppable

Filed in: Wild Ramblings | Writing | blog    Tags: Facebook | Music | tarantella | Twitter
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A few nights ago, I posted this on my Twitter and FB accounts: 1 AM, and I just don’t want the music to stop. This was not a metaphor for some life issue. As my energy waned, I felt my creativity draining. Yet one of my Pandora stations sang on, in the midst of songs [...]

When the Feet and Mind Wander

Filed in: Life    Tags: Cedar Hill Lake
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Looks pretty doesn’t it. Note the rocks on top of the ice. The surface of the lake is frozen solid. I love it when looks are deceiving.

Headshots Ahead

Filed in: Life    Tags: diet programs | new make-up | Ramona Richards
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Ah, my dear readers, I need your ideas. If (and admittedly this is a big if) I make my financial and writing goals in January and February, I’d like to reward myself with new headshots. I have a photographer in mind, someone who can shoot a portrait that’s more “romantic suspense author” than what I’ve [...]

Book Review: The Big 5-OH!

Filed in: Book Reviews    Tags: Abingdon Press | Sandra D. Bricker | Sanibel Island | The Big 5-OH!
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Sandra Bricker’s The Big 5-OH! begins with a mood as bleak as the Ohio winter her heroine struggles with. Olivia Wallace, widow and cancer survivor, has never had a birthday that didn’t arrive along with some dire tragedy. Now 50 is staring her in the face, accompanied by sore muscles, deep snow, and murky days. [...]

Legacy: Of Creativity, Faith, and the Occasional Southern Baptist

Filed in: Life    Tags: Dorothy Patterson | legacy of faith | quilting | Southern Baptist
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I’ve been reading a lot of blogs and reflections on the past year, most containing hopes for the coming year. 2009 held a mixed bag of events for me, with a couple of high blended with a lot of deep lows. So instead of reflecting on the two years of 2009/10, I decided to look [...]