I took a walk around my neighborhood circle with my little dog about a year ago, thinking, praying. Gotta burn a few brain cells to write a novel. My book, How To Catch A Prince, was in the works and I’d not yet honed in on the spiritual theme. My heroine, Corina, had a twin brother killed in Afghanistan and unfortunately, …
You’re Not Crazy, You’re Super Menopausal Part 3
Originated with It’s Been A Year (Written in 2015. Read Part One Here. Read Part Two Here.) Well, I turned in How To Catch A Prince unfinished, with the last hundred pages rough draft. My publisher and editor offered peace and understanding, but in the end when we had to push the book out 3 months. I’d never done that …
The Summer of ’85
I spent the summer of ’85 living in the Phi Mu house, just a touch up 15th Avenue, across High Street from the main campus entrance. Well, it was in those days. That entrance is closed off now, but then, you could drive on to the campus from High and 15th. My best buds lived in the house that same …
Home from the 10th ACFW Conference!
(left, Susan Downs, me, Susan May Warren. Ten years and counting!) It’s never easy, Being in a pool of peers. Swimming with the current. Against the current. Exhausted. Laughing. Weary yet energized. Pulled in a thousand different directions. Yet somehow having a single purpose. Novels. Fiction. Hanging with other writers. I love to teach. Never realized how much until I …
Home Sweet Home
The past eleven days have been the most crazy, busy, fun days I’ve had in awhile. Sadly, all without my hubby. On the 11th I attended the Ohio State v. Miami Hurricanes game. I hadn’t been in the Horseshoe in over 23 years and was simply overwhelmed at the grandness of the stadium. Twenty-five years ago this December I graduated …
I’m curling
We don’t have TV at my house, but I’ve seen some of the Olympics here and there. Watching a bit of curling the other night in my Birmingham hotel. I love watching how the players slide over the ice as they brushing the ice for the curling disk/ball. Do you think they wear special shoes? Anyway, it looks so cool …
Five “New” People who touched my life in 2009
Two days before Christmas, I met my college friend Suzanne Brubaker (nee Cantwell) at a Starbucks south of Indianapolis. We talked for 3.5 hours. Not having seen each other in 15 years or so, exchanging only Christmas and Birthday notes throughout the years, I was confident the young woman who impacted me during sorority rush 24 years ago would impact …
RWA Conference and The RITAs
Today I flew home from the Romance Writers of America conference in Washington DC. I went without any of my buddies, but left with many new and improved relationships. My roommates, Jane Thornton, Nancy Hines and Cecelia Dowdy were strangers on Wednesday but friends by Sunday. Friend and fabo author Leanna Ellis became a better friend. I deepened my relationship …
The Changing World
Hubby and I were talking about communication in this Internet age and how easy it is for information to travel. Do you know it used to take a decade for a book to cross a nation, a hundred years to cross a Continent? In high school, a friend of mine traveled half way around the world to visit her dad …
Getting in the holiday spirit
It’s not snowing outside, but I’m getting in the Christmas spirit. Of course, the last time it “snowed” in central Florida was ’89 and I-75 turned into a parking lot. We had a great Thanksgiving with my family in Knoxville. My mom’s home is always so cozy and inviting. I inherited my aversion to over head lights from her. We …