The other day I was shopping in my local club stores. I turned a corner and one of those awkward almost collisions occurred. The man muttered excuse me and did what I normally do and smiled while nodding my...
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Proud Mom Moment
One of the fun things about twins is their ability to prank people, often unintentionally. When my daughters were freshmen, they switched places in line for school photos. Then they realized they could play a long game prank. The...
What time is it?
Sometime late last Friday, I realized that I skipped over Thursday entirely. I missed my newsletter and pretty much everything else. I’m still trying to recover the missing days from last week. Every time I look at my phone,...
Reach Out and Touch Someone
In the 80’s AT&T, the largest phone company in the USA, adopted the slogan “Reach out and touch someone.” This week in almost every corner of the world we are told to practice social distancing. This is leaving many...
Reading as fast as I can
For the last month, I have been reading books to vote on for the Whitney Awards. As a member of the Storymaker’s Guild, I vote, with other members, on the finalist books for the winners. Usually, I only vote...
Love your Library
Today is not only Valentine’s Day, but it’s also Library Lover’s Day. It is a day to honor libraries, librarians, bookworms, and library lovers in your life. My library put up a local author shelf. (Photos on Facebook. I...
Truth wins!
There are some things that authors just can’t make up. In Lorin’s Sweet Romance Readers we have been playing a round of “Tell me a truth about your life that sounds like it should be fiction.” (A game I stole from...
The Slush days of Winter
I was looking for a photo of slush other than the street in front of my house and decided that semi-melted snow wasn’t very fun or appealing. However Hot Chocolate is a much better way to survive the days of...
Laughing at Reviews
So I did a new thing this week. I put on acrylic fingernails. Since I moved from Texas my fingernails have been a mess. The split, break, and chip. So inspired by a receptionist’s nails I decided to fake...