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Being a writer and blogger isn't all it's cracked up to be. We don't all live in our parents' basements and slouch around all day in pajamas. Some of us slouch around in yoga pants and sweatshirts. Why? Because blogging and writing gets messy. If my email inbox is any...
What’s On Your Weekend To Do List?
Today's the day to share weekend-before-Christmas to do lists. Why? To reassure one another that we're not the only ones with shopping to do, presents to wrap, and more baking projects than are humanly possible. Therefore, I'm posting my to do list for the world to...
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Dipped Pretzels
Last weekend, we were invited and asked to bring food for two Christmas parties. For people with food allergies, such gatherings tend to be either a minefield of hazardous food choices or an unwelcome exercise of sweet tooth self-denial. But after discovering Costco's...
Top Ten Books Read in 2013
This year was a good one for reading and listening to books. Thanks to Good Reads, keeping track of what I read was easy to do. After a look through my book list, I came up with this top ten list. All were books read for the first time in 2013, though many were...
Aunt Harriet, My Mentor and Friend
Sealed with salt water. The words leaped off the page yesterday as I finished Mockingjay, the third book of the Hunger Games trilogy. The phrase was used by the story's protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, to describe the process of recording her memories of loved ones...
Joy Suckers Revisited
Joy Suckers first posted on this blog in early January of 2013. With the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings upon us and Christmas celebrations about to begin, it seems right to post it again. And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I...