You Can Make a Difference–Brenda Novak’s Diabetes Auction
Mother’s Day–another excuse to be happy
Some words are loaded with emotion. “Mother” is one of them. If you’re reading this, you had a mother, whether you knew her or not, loved her or not, appreciated her or not. Some of you may have recently lost your mother. Some of you may just have found her. Some of you may by…
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My Hands are Tied
I love my email. First of all, most of it is positive. Overwhelmingly. Going to the computer every day to write a novel takes either a certain amount of ego or a complete absence of good sense. Often a positive email gives me the necessary ego boost to start work. Sometimes it blunts what good sense is left after…
Read MoreI Just Can’t Understand You!
“Hamburg (ots) – reader reaches and inspires you with their projecting seeds and romantic stories women such as men with their books millions. Now equivalent two novel filmings are radiated by Emilie Richard to the Prime time on Sunday in the Second Channel of German Television. On 3 May the Second Channel of German Television…
Read MoreHow Can I Keep From Singing?
What’s the payoff for a cold, rainy spring? A sunny warm day when the world bursts into bloom. We’re having one of those today, and I wanted to share it with you. Here are some photos quickly taken in my garden along with the words to one of my favorite hymns of praise, written in…
Read MoreWhat Price Happiness?
The following made me smile. I hope it makes you smile, as well. I don’t know how this Amazon bookseller got a copy of a book that’s not yet in print. I don’t know why this bookseller thinks this particular copy is worth a thousand dollars–but, of course, as the author how can I dispute…
Read MoreAnd You Thought Research was Dull?
So, do you really believe novelists just make stuff up? After all, they call this fiction. We don’t know how it’s really done, so we fudge? Well, that would be the easy way out, but truth is, novelists HATE those letters you write us that point out Ash Wednesday and Easter do NOT occur…
Read MoreThe Smell of Baking Bread
I promised my Rosemary Focaccia recipe, so here it is, just in time for those post-holiday eating blues. The roast lamb or brisket is finished and nothing tastes quite special enough in comparison. This will, I hope. I first “noticed” focaccia while having dinner at a friend’s house. Jim had baked his own, and I was…
Read MoreHappiness is Homemade Focaccia
Every once in a while I get an interview request with the question, “Tell us something nobody knows about you.” Well, of course, if nobody knows something, there’s an awfully good reason, isn’t there? And how likely am I to divulge deep, dark secrets to people I’ve never met? But here’s something most people don’t…
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