July 30 marks the 1-year anniversary of I Loved You First, and we’re having a celebration! Five days of fun and prizes. And best of all, you’re invited! Oh… and there’s a new cover. 🙂 Over $100 in prizes Every day a new prizes, but you’ll have to hurry! Each giveaway lasts just 48 hours. And […]
So we’re registered in the national do not call thingamajig. Yet somehow folks still call every day asking us to take their silly surveys or try their products. What gives? Well, yesterday some woman called about participating in a retirement survey. She started by asking if anyone in the house was between 25 and 29 […]
So my 5 year-old son is a bit anal retentive. I can’t tell you the number of times he’s complained about his tummy hurting. Then I count the number of days since his last BM and know. Yes, I keep track of when he goes BM. Well, I used to before I started school this […]
Here in the Northern hemisphere, it’s mid-summer. Readers everywhere are loading up their e-reading devices for summer beach reading and vacations. But what about the good people South of the equator, who are now in the middle of winter? They deserve to curl up in front of the fireplace and enjoy a good read too! […]
So, I’m 27 this year. I love that number… 3 cubed. Yesterday my mother called me to tell me someone’s getting old. I said, “who?” Then she came up with some arbitrary number she tried to assign to my age. I told her, “Guess what mom! I’m turning 27 tomorrow!” Not sure why that was […]
July 30 marks the 1-year anniversary of I Loved You First, and we’re having a celebration! Five days of fun and prizes. And best of all, your’e invited! Over $100 in prizes Every day a new prizes, but you’ll have to hurry! Each giveaway lasts just 48 hours. And to wrap everything up, one reader […]
It’s been about a year and a half since I published my first piece, Control Freak: Brandon’s Story. Two incidents today made me reflect a little on the work. As part of the Nursing program I’m in, I had to become CPR certified… something I did today. When we were doing the infant CPR with […]
So I’m actually making some significant progress with Chasing Shadows. There are days I feel like I’ll never get through it. Other days, I knock out a scene or chapter and think every scene completed is a step in the right direction. I’m in the center of the book now and see I got sloppy. […]
Once in a while, I come across a movie I have to share. Today, that movie is The Stoning of Soraya M. So what’s it about? Set in 1986 Iran at the start of Khomeini’s reign, director Cyrus Nowrasteh’s drama tells the true story of Soraya (Mozhan Marnò), whose husband plots to have her falsely […]
On Friday, a package came for me in the mail. It took me by surprise since I didn’t remember ordering anything. After some investigation I found the name of my oldest daughter in the place of the sender. On my gosh! A Mother’s day present. I opened the package and found an adorable figurine of […]