It’s all about me
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Announcing Frazer Baby 2! Coming to my waiting arms mid-September 2017! This super awesome dude is going to be a BIG BRO! And I’m going to be an even luckier Gramma! CONGRATULATIONS MOMMY & DADDY FRAZER! (Geesh but September is so…far…away…)
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Common sense is that miscellaneous key on your key ring. Everybody has one, but it rarely gets used. Opinions are like landmines–they should be navigated with care. Being offended is like getting wet in the rain, it’s going to happen, but unless you’re the wicked witch of the west or made of sugar, it shouldn’t ruin your…
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A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who sympathized, empathized, and otherwise offered comfort and kind words regarding the passing of our sweet Nellie. The Nellie blog inspired many folks to share stories of their pets. Wonderful stories! Humorous, heartbreaking, incredible stories. We laughed, we cried, we remembered fondly. Crazy dog! Can you believe…! How about that time…! The loss may continue…
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It is with wounded heart, weeping eyes, and hitching breath that I type this. We lost our beloved pup, Nellie Fox, last week after thirteen long and wonderful years and a quick and failing decline. We bought her from a Pembroke Welsh Corgi breeder in Harvard, Illinois, Labor Day weekend, 2003. To discourage an impulse buy, I…
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Happy New Year. Happy fresh start. Happy do-over. Or redo-over. Or do-new. 2016 was quite a year. These are just words on a screen. Any tone you read was drawn of your own implication. But you did read that with tone, didn’t you? You couldn’t help it. It was quite a year. To be fair,…
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I love a fresh start. A blank page, a white canvas, a new year. They hold so much promise. I’m not so concerned with traditional “resolutions” this new year, although I do resolve to get things done. There’re a lot of things I think about doing that I just never seem to get to. For…
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Congratulations! You have officially survived Christmas. All those weeks of planning, prepping, buying, baking, carding, cleaning, and wrapping have paid off. (in the words of those oh-so-popular-this-time-of-year infomercials) BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! The myriad of things you didn’t get done have come due. For every Christmas accomplishment, there was an, “Oh, I’ll do that after Christmas,” or a,…
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I truly believe there is only so much you can know at any given time. I’m pretty sure I’m at capacity, which is why I’m so forgetful. At my age, every time I learn something new, something else gets pushed out. It’s a pretty common theory amongst the absentminded. And the aging. It’s amazing what…
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I have my first official book signing for my novel, Pocket Money, on Sunday, October 9, at a wonderful Indie bookstore called Mystery to Me in Madison. I’ll be sharing an author panel with Kristin Oakley, who was kind enough to initiate this event, and YA author Kathleen Tresemer. Kristin is the author of God on Mayhem Street,…
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As most of you know by now, one of my passions is a little project I call Word of Art. It’s a fabulous collaboration of authors and artists, sponsored by In Print Professional Writers’ Organization, that culminates in a gallery show, reception with program, and hard cover, full-color publication. In our third year, we are…
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