The Good Stuff
Linen napkins Every November, while I watch TV, I polish all the copper, brass, and silver in the house in preparation for the holidays. By the time I get to the silver, I’m pretty sick of polishing...
View ArticleChristmas Cookies!
The weather has finally turned cold just in time to bake Christmas cookies this weekend. I’ll be making Gingersnaps using the Joy of Cooking’s recipe, and Scottish Shortbread which is butter, rice...
View ArticleWord of the Year
The members of an author email loop I’m on choose a word of the year rather than a New Year’s resolution. It becomes their personal theme for the year. I like that better than a list of...
View ArticleOlympic Movies
The Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony is today and for the next two-and-a-half weeks, athletes who’ve spent years training will compete for an Olympic medal. To get there, they’ve sacrificed and so...
View ArticlePyramid Scheme
A few months ago, a group of us booked a cruise with a shore excursion to the Lamanai ruins in Belize. “And you’re allowed to climb the High Temple!” we were told enthusiastically. No way, I...
View ArticleDo You Voodoo?
Last weekend, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to see the Age of Impressionism exhibit. Naturally, I had to stop by the museum gift shop because they always have a coffee table book...
View ArticleTesting . . . Testing . . .123
I’ve been taking way too many internet quizzes lately. You know the ones that get shared on Facebook with questions like What Super Power Should You Actually Have? (I got the super power of white hot...
View ArticlePit Stops on the Information Highway
I have a new Blaze out next month. TAKEN BY STORM is my road romance where two strangers drive a neurotic show dog to Seattle after snow strands them at O’Hare Airport. Naturally, they don’t stay...
View ArticleRoad Trips
I have a new book out this month! TAKEN BY STORM is a strangers-to-lovers road romance. We’ve got Zoey, who is taking her sister’s champion Afghan Hound across country to breed, and Cam, a craft...
View ArticleTime to Say Goodbye
I’ve been blogging here at the Blaze Authors’ Blog on the 7th of every month since it began in April 2009. July’s TAKEN BY STORM is my final book for Blaze, so this post, my 65th, will be my last. You...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....