Good morning, and thank you for calling the Mother’s Day Hotline. Please excuse the dust, as our hotline has been out of commission for so long, phones are now wristwatches. Or maybe eyeglasses? But so far as I can tell……
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It was celebration time last week! If you want to do a party right, you serve tea. This is the kind of party animal I am. A dormouse. I met a girlfriend at the local tea room and took a…
I just returned from having coffee with fellow authorette, Bonnie Hardy. She’s got a great mystery series going, and if there’s one thing I love, it’s to talk shop. Although I’m sure I babbled like an excited second-grader at Disneyland,…
As a recovering perfectionist, I remind myself on a regular basis that nothing is perfect. But practice does make possible. I’ve written a lot of words over the years, and as it turns out, none of them were wasted. Even…
Welcome to 2022. I got you. In the excitement of entering yet another year full of woes and wherewithals, I’m here to say there’s a better way. Now, I’m not immune to the gloom, but raising five kids taught me…
Is it time to go shopping? Need the perfect gift for someone who loves to read but already has all the books? I’ve gone shopping for you! Honor their need for words with this baker’s dozen list of best gifts…
Every year, my family wants to know what I want for Christmas and every year I react like a deer in the headlights. Gifts are tricky little things and I am notoriously hard to shop for because, frankly, I don’t…
Something snaps in the marketing mind of an Indie author as she careens through the social media maze and the website, uh, web. She sits at her desk one fine morning and realizes that her efforts at anonymity have been…