• Farewell, old man

    Farewell, old man

    As you may remember, we lost our sweet Nellie in January of this year. Shortly after her passing, our oldest dog, Buehrle suffered some sort of seizure or stroke where he lost his vision, hearing, and mobility for a brief time. We gave him meds, changed his diet, and hoped for the best. He got…

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  • What I’m Working on Now

    What I’m Working on Now

    I am so excited to be in the middle of a new/old project. As you may or may not know, November is National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is a writing challenge where you try to hit a word count goal of 50,000 words in 30 days. Originally, I thought I would focus on the follow…

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  • Turtles All the Way Down – a book review

    I recently completed reading the latest John Green novel, Turtles All the Way Down. I saw an ad for my local DeKalb Book World saying they had a limited amount of author signed copies. I had seen John speak several years ago in support of The Fault in our Stars and thought, hey, I saw…

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  • NaNoWriteMore

    It’s almost November! Can you feel the excitement carried on the brisk winds? The anticipation filling the air like so many golden leaves? The thrill of shorter days and longer hours tackling a wordy adventure while power-caffeinating? November brings National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. I first joined in 2011. I have “won”…

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  • For your consideration…

    In a time of transgender bathroom battles, 31 identity options (according to the state of NY), and the ever-growing alphabet of LGBTQIAetc, isn’t it a tiny bit ironic that GENDER REVEAL PARTIES are so trendy? Using only *gasp* two choices: pink and blue! Do you find it counterproductive that we raise our babies with constant vehicular entertainment then…

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  • La-la-la L is for

    La-la-la L is for

    In continuation of The Writer’s Alphabet, here’s the letter L: La-la-la LIFE.

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  • Fifty One-derful

    Last year, when a bunch of my friends and I all turned FIFTY, we freaked a little. Just a little, I mean, fifty is the new forty and all that. We’re a pretty defiant bunch, not gonna let age take us prematurely, we’ll go kicking and screaming into the elder abyss, but still…FIFTY. Well, we…

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  • In the Presence of Kings

    In the Presence of Kings

    When Anderson Bookshop announced at the end of June, that authors Stephen King and Owen King would be making a stop in Naperville on September 29, I put the time and date of ticket release on my phone calendar. There was NO way I was missing this event!               Like many of…

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  • Dear Friend

    Dear Friend

    When I blogged in June of 2014 about all of the things that keep me busy, I made reference to my card-making for a project called Girls Love Mail. Little did I know that the cards and letters I created, penned, and sent would come back to thank me.           TODAY,…

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  • The Pink Room

    I recently painted my office/studio pink. It’s very pink. I say that for your benefit, not mine. I know it’s pink. I painted it. All the same, it’s very pink. When my daughter was in high school, she painted what was then her bedroom three shades of pink with the fourth wall black. When she…

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