It was an average, exhausting, Thursday and after a long day of kid stuff, a vet visit and trying to get work done, I was driving home from my eight-year-old's basketball practice when something unexpected made me smile. A simple street sign, one I've driven by hundreds of times and never noticed. It read Loch Lomond! My thoughts immediately turned to Scotland, then they … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2017
Judgment Time
The first three months of each year are an exciting, nerve-wracking time in the life of a romance writer (at least for those of us who are members of RWA). This is the season when entries for the RITA and Golden Heart contests are sent to judges. These contests are the Oscars of the romance world where published (RITA) and unpublished (Golden Heart) authors submit their work … [Read more...]
Literary Roads and Connecticut
Do you stop by libraries and bookstores when you are traveling? It is something that I love to do. I have traveled to bookstores all over. From old to new, in big cities and small towns, this is a favorite past time. I love to pop into a bookstore, have a latte and find the perfect books to read while traveling. Over the holidays, I took a trip through Connecticut and … [Read more...]
A Choice
HBO's Westworld became my favorite new sci-fi show of 2016. It's set in the future at an amusement park (Westworld) where guests can pretend they are in the Wild West by participating in gunfights, train heists, romantic entanglements, treasure hunts, and any other plot from a Western film. The park is populated by lifelike robots, each programmed with a background and … [Read more...]
I don’t follow my own rules…
...which is why New Year resolutions never work for me. If I make a rule for myself, who's to stop me from breaking that rule? I'm certainly not going to do it. If I wanted to follow the rule, I would. Who I am to stop me from something that I want to do? That's just mean. I do make plans. I love plans. I have a plan to go to Scotland this year. And a plan to pay off some … [Read more...]
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