Category: On Life and Writing

Do You NaNoWriMo?

 October 31, 2014

Do you NaNoWriMo? Starting Monday, Nov. 3, I will be seated at this table, participating in National Novel Writing Month. I’m looking forward to it. There’s nothing like putting other projects aside to focus on writing 50,000 words in one month. Long before I put pen to paper, I’ve been  writing in my head. It […]

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When Writing Takes You Where You Would Rather Not Go

 October 30, 2014

The leaves of fall are almost entirely gone as autumn prepares the way for winter, a place I would rather not go, at least not yet! In the same way, sometimes writing takes you where you would rather not go. Joy The character Joy, in my newly released novel Dancing on a High Wire, fights […]

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What Age Are You Meant to Be?

 October 16, 2014

I read an article a while back about how each of us has a certain age that we were born to be. This is the time that we are most ourselves, happiest, the best years of our life. For some people those years were in high school. Perhaps they were a cheerleader or football hero […]

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Drowning in Details

 October 10, 2014

I’ve been drowning in details this week, details associated with self-publishing as well as the details that are part of everyday life (feeding the dog, laundry, groceries, meal prep and dishes). As I’ve been preparing to publish my next novel, I’ve been busy going over the copy-edit numerous times, making changes suggested by my editor […]

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We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

 September 19, 2014

When it comes to technology, I don’t know what I don’t know. I can’t even ask the right questions because it takes some knowledge to do this. I recently watched a young friend as she copied a piece of video, saved it to my computer then compressed it into a zip file so it didn’t […]

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Remembering 9/11

 September 10, 2014

It was a beautiful evening last Saturday. My husband and I were taking our puppy, Seamus, for a walk in the neighborhood before the Michigan State football game. Our plans were to relax and watch the game after tiring Seamus out with a walk. We were talking, enjoying the moment when a hundred pounds of […]

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Perfect in all of our Imperfections

 September 4, 2014

            Personally, I think perfection is over rated. It’s boring. Above is a picture of a tree with a dead branch as seen from my backyard. This branch has been hanging there for at least four years. Last winter amidst all the ice and heavy snow, many branches came down but this one stubbornly remains. […]

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God Is In the Details

 August 28, 2014

I love this saying! Most of us are familiar with the phrase, “the devil is in the details.” What I didn’t know is that originally the phrase was “God is in the details,” or so I found out from Rob Eager’s post this week. Rob states, “According to the Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs […]

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