Have I Told You Lately How Much I Love My Crockpot(s)?
I’m embarrassed to say this, but in addition to being a cookbook hoarder I am also a Crockpot addict. That’s right. I can’t imagine a better use for the floor of my new pantry than for my bevy of slow cookers, right below the long, long row of cookbooks. Have I told you about my…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: I Am Thinking of A Fairy Tale
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Did you know that the average person gains at least 5 pounds over the Christmas holidays? Scary, right? That’s not a Christmas present any of us want. And yet perhaps we need to…
Read MoreHit By the Moving Truck–Metaphorically Speaking
I’m still unpacking, and I also have yet another go round on my edits for Somewhere Between Luck and Trust. This time I’m reading through the final copy, which is fun but time consuming. I get to fix what I don’t like about the edits, and these days I can do it right online. The…
Read MoreThe View From My Window on”Happiness Key”
For fun today, and because I’m busily unpacking with little worth saying except “hand me the box cutters,” I thought I’d share a few photos from our new home. We now live on a SW Florida waterway, not quite a lake, nor exactly a pond, looking over a state park. The bird life is extraordinary,…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: All the Singing
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Living in Florida now our angels for the holiday season have a different appearance than when we waited anxiously for the snow to fall and ice to cover the trees. In this poem,…
Read MoreWhat, Me Worry? An Author’s Nightmares.
I have a cushy job, right? I set my own hours, spend a huge percentage of them living in a fantasy world, stare unblinking into space for days without anyone calling the little men with the butterfly nets. I’m a writer. So with so many pluses, what do writers worry about? In the interests of…
Read MoreColor My World, Or At Least My Study
Every ten years or so I’m faced with a big decision. That’s about how often I move and must, out of necessity, fix up a room to work in. Which invariably means a new coat of paint. Which invariably means choosing a color for the walls. My first study was located in the corner of…
Read MorePoetry Sunday: HANDLE WITH CARE
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. As we enter into the season of peace, I’m relieved that the Palestinians and Israelis agreed to a truce after an intense but brief conflict. I’m reminded of a favorite poet of mine,…
Read MoreThe Advent Virus: Beware an Increased Susceptibility to Love
WARNING……WARNING: ADVENT VIRUS Be on the alert for symptoms of inner Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to this virus and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now,…
Read MoreThe Write Way: Out With the Old, but When?
Unless you’re new here, you already know my husband and I just moved to Happiness Key. . . okay, not “really” but close enough to suit me. We bought a House with a View in Florida, and will never regret it. We look over a narrow marshy waterway alive with birds and, I’m told, occasional…
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