We had two days of hot weather here this week and it reminded me of how much I love this month. May! Sunshine and soft air on my skin. Never mind that it is now raining again… What I’m reading: Last weekend, I dropped my husband off at the barber and headed to the library, […]
Fingers crossed for a nice weekend! Here’s what’s going on: What I’m Reading: Same books as last week, which I can’t divulge, because I’m reading for a contest. But I also have occasion to load up my Kindle with Ebooks because I read while baby George naps on my chest. So I have been perusing […]
What I’m writing: Draft Two of my first romance novel. I am living proof that you can write a Really Shitty First Draft and make it into something. With previous novels, I’ve known more about the plot and characters and thus had a more polished first draft (still crappy, though). There are many places in […]
Why I’m writing this post on Saturday: Because yesterday morning we had a big windstorm. One minute it was a nice, calm Friday morning and the next it was so windy I thought the fir tree in the backyard was going to crash into my house. And lots of trees did crash down all over […]
What I did: Um…some fun things? A lot of work? This was one of those weeks when I was busy all the time and yet when I sit down to review what happened I can’t remember anything. A possible explanation for that lies here. I did make a lot of progress on my WIP, a […]
What I’m Complaining About: The weather. Again. I’m sorry. It has been a really long winter here. My husband looked at the weather app on his phone this morning and said the forecast was for a clear day on April 9th. Sigh. What I’m Watching: In the category of We’re Old and Clueless About Technology, […]
What I did this week: I just got back from a three-day writing retreat in Astoria, Oregon. Oh boy oh boy was it ever wonderful to have three days to focus on writing fiction. I also remembered how great it is to enjoy the camaraderie of other writers. At night we drank wine and talked […]
What I’m happy about: Daylight savings time coming this weekend. If daylight savings time is here, spring can’t be far, right? Can’t come soon enough around here. We’ve had rainy day after rainy day after rainy day. And that’s after so man snow and ice storms I can’t even count them. Even I, the original […]
What I’m Reading: The Mapping of Love and Death, one of many novels in the Maisie Dobbs historical mystery series by Jacqueline Winspear. I love this book. It’s my kind of mystery–one where the sleuth’s story is almost as important as the mystery she is solving. I’m planning to go back and start at the […]
What I’m Reading: The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena, a book I picked up on a whim from the “Lucky Day” shelf at the library. I started reading is Saturday evening after teaching all day, read after two small boys I babysat that night went to sleep, read with breakfast Sunday morning, and finished […]
