You might say I have an intense personal relationship with chocolate. Servers at my favorite restaurant laugh when taking my dessert order because, and I quote, "It’s like watching a love triangle on Days of Our Lives." My usual dessert pick is the Chocolate Tart, a piece of ganache-filled goodness I nicknamed “My Steady Boyfriend” because if it could wear pants, I’d … [Read more...]
Pranks for the Memories …
"It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for." (source unknown) A guy I used to work with right after I graduated from college once said this about me: She’s the type who sits there looking sweet and innocent, but she’s thinking, “I could trip him as he walks by and no one would ever know it was me.” That’s weird, because I never was into pulling … [Read more...]
Wise Words for 2018
Happy New Year, everybody! New Year's Day can be a banquet of promise and possibilities. (Sometimes the banquet's first course is big helping of New Year’s Eve recovery, but we're not here to judge.) Lots of people are making resolutions today that they hope to keep. Some of us have whole lists. Mine starts with: My treadmill will be used for its original purpose, not … [Read more...]
Guilty Pleasures
I still have a National Novel Writhing Month Day 1 hangover. No alcohol involved, but I do have a guilty pleasure that I indulge in while writing … You know those round gold-foil-wrapped candies? The ones with creamy chocolate and hazelnut and the little wafer shell? Yeah, those things over there on the left. Ferraro Rochers, a.k.a. the food of the gods. (Well, the gods … [Read more...]
World-Building Anxiety
"It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?" — from Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels I sure can't think of anything scarier. But that's a writer's job. When Sidney Sheldon penned those words, his character wasn't talking about a writer creating a fictional world and everything in it. The same sentiment applies, though. It's not … [Read more...]
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