This week is the release week for not just one, but two books I am insanely excited to read. But, trying to limit my book spending, I put them both on my Christmas list. So, I will spend the next month not reading them, but eagerly anticipating them. And, if I don’t get them as [...]
I have so much to be grateful for, today and always. I am truly, truly blessed. I hope each of y’all has a wonderful day surrounded by friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving, friends. You might also like: 1-0-0
It’s the end of another month, which means YA Highway wants to know: What’s the best book you read in November? I slowed down in my reading a bit this month, so I don’t have many books to choose from. I have been reading through The Dark is Rising Sequence and am on the last [...]
The other night, Geek Husband and I watched the movie Driven. It’s about Indy race car drivers…and written by Sylvester Stallone. Which means, before even watching, we both knew that it would be an underdog story. There would be a character who needs to overcome his past and his fears. It would be over the [...]
See, told ya I would be better about posting recipes. This one is for a delightful pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting. Cake 5 1/2 cups flour 4 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp cloves 1/4 tsp nutmeg 4 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 1/4 cup milk (room temp.) 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin 1 [...]
November is an interesting month. It seems that every year, despite my best intentions to write, like, a billion words, November becomes the busiest month of my life. And the sickest. I didn’t NaNoWriMo last year because I had a sinus infection that lasted over 3 weeks in November. So this year I went in [...]
1. Things I have to do today: Wash dishes. A lot, lot, lot of dishes. Otherwise clean the house. It is a disaster. Call to get quotes for winter tires on our car. Then grumble because winter tires are really expensive because we can’t go lower than a 17″ rim on our car (I love [...]
1. Happy Veteran’s Day. I love federal holidays, ’cause Geek Husband works for the university, so he gets the day off. I guess it is kinda a love-hate relationship with the day though: he’s home, so I want to hang out with him…but I also want to write. Gah! 2. I was a little sickly [...]
I am beginning to think that November will be a pretty boring month for my blog. I have insane word count goals this month (I have a 4,000 word goal today, and that is just prep for my 10,000 word write-a-thon tomorrow), so my brain is so wrapped up in my actual writing that I [...]
Sometimes I read a book so amazing that I alternate between thinking, I will never be able to write something like this, and, I have to keep working as hard as I can so I can be this good. It is a weird sensation for a writer to be so torn between hope and defeat. [...]
