A little over a year ago, my husband went with a small group of people into San Benito, Nicaragua. They went to help the people in the small rural community build a safe structure among the many mud, cardboard, and plastic huts they called home. The building would be their church and a shelter from […]
Dear Santa, I’m sending out my letter a little late but I wasn’t sure of your deadline date. My list this year is quite long but then I have been good and I haven’t done one thing wrong. I would ask my husband for some of these things too but I’m afraid, when it comes […]
For those of you who don’t know, I have finished two YA novels that I am trying to get published. I love my first one but it is proving more difficult to get noticed than my second. I attribute the fact that YA is really heavy on the paranormal/fantasy kick right now. Book one has […]
My Family: likes their eggnog on Thanksgiving and College Football is the entertainment. My mom thinks she is Martha Stewart and insist the kids eat off fine china even though one of them breaks a piece each year (sometimes two). My dad makes casseroles and fancy dishes that he has seen on the Food Network […]
“I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”—Walt Disney I opened my monthly Disney news letter (yes I get one and yes I am a Disney nut) this morning and read that today marks Mickey Mouse’s birthday. It was today in 1928 that […]
This morning began like most mornings do. I got up, fed kids, dressed kids, took kids to school while dancing in our seats to Miley Cyrus Party in the U.S.A, sang loudly and off key, drank my eggnog latte, listened to my kids fight over who gets to sit in the middle seats while we […]
This morning I am sitting alone drinking coffee and listening to the conversations around me as I check my email, Twitter, and Facebook. I am of the opininion that sitting alone in coffee shops does wonders for a writers creativity. The things people talk about loudly for all the world to hear often times hold […]
I am almost positive in my assumption that all writers love a good bookstore. It’s somewhere I can get lost in for hours. It would sound great if I went on about how much I loved finding new voices and stories that inspire me. However, alas, this is not necessarily the case. Sure I love […]
The dishes are piled up in the sink, the laundry is out of control, I managed to forget I was making tea ( I won’t give you the details but it wasn’t pretty), and I didn’t hear my five year old when she asked if she could have candy for breakfast and I apparently replied […]
It was easy to hand over my finished novel to my mother and let her read it. I knew if she hated it that she would let me down easy and use positivity to lead me in another direction. I had no nervous knot in my stomach as I handed over the manuscript I had […]