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When I received the email from the Writers’ Police Academy stating it was their LAST, I quickly solicited a group of fellow writers to join me in Appleton, Wisconsin for five days. I was NOT going to miss this writers’ event with hands-on classes taught by top instructors, all professionals in the field. Upon arrival,
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I just returned from an intense and exhausting conference and haven’t had a chance to organize my thoughts in an expository and engaging way, so please accept this Roxy Pupdate as a placeholder for a super exciting post (next week). Thank you. ROXY, 12 weeks, Cardigan Corgi
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This ‘ownership’ is a connection you feel to something or someone based on a simple exchange. A crossing of paths, comment in passing, or random shared experience. That encounter becomes an object of emotional permanence. My good friend and fellow author, Kristin Oakley, is releasing her long-anticipated young adult dystopian novel, The Devil Particle, June
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WHAT DAY IS IT?! Memorial Day is like the Wednesday of seasons. Halfway between School ending and Summer beginning. Some have completed the school year. Others are eagerly counting down the days–of which this one delays the finality. But the end is near…and soon, summer will commence. It’s a gorgeous, warm, sunny day here in
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The impetus for today’s post was based on finding a bag of Easter basket goodies that I bought this year and then forgot about. Being non-perishable, I was going to pack them up for next year. Then I reconsidered. Now is good, I told myself. So I passed the items on. Then I thought, “Now
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Again. As many of you know, we are Corgi people. Our Original Corgi Crew consisted of three Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Nellie, Ozzie, and Buehrle. Six years ago, we began our Corgi Crew 2 with Miskey. A year later, we added Jackson. There was a temporary expansion, but we’ve been a 2-corgi family for four years.
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I am purposely posting late because my Book Club discussed Then She Was Gone this morning and I wondered if my review would change based on our conversation. It did not. Full Title : Then She Was Gone – A NovelAuthor: Lisa JewellGenre: Women’s Domestic Life Fiction Brief Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old golden child, Ellie, disappears and her family falls
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I believe it is very important for people to travel. Regardless of how you get there, you need to explore life outside your bubble. There’s a whole big, crazy, different, interesting and WEIRD world to be experienced! I open my current Weird List with this sentiment because I realize weird is subjective and I do
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Cold.Scary.Expensive.Awesome.Interesting.Filling. I love being there, I hate getting there.A few weeks ago, for the first time in a looooooong time, I spent a few days downtown with two delightful, engaging, and wonderful friends. We walked, trained, Ubered, taxied. We wandered, dined, shopped. I took them to my favorite free destination, the Chicago Cultural Center. We
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While lying awake in bed last night, my mind as active as the flurry of April snow (for those of you who didn’t wake to the white stuff, it SNOWED here last night), I thought to myself, there is NO WAY I’m going to be able to post a blog in the morning. I have
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