Today is the last day of the school year. I’m so looking forward to summer break. I’m so dreading it. My sons are on two different schedules (one half-day kindergartner and two middle schoolers). Because of some…ahem…”issues” I’ve ended up driving them to and fro rather than putting them on the bus I paid for [...]
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Did I meet you at the Romantic Times convention last week? Forgive me if I’m vague about this. You see, I made the brilliant decision to decaffeinate. Yup. No caffeine for a week before (or during) the entire convention. If I DID meet you, I told you this. Repeatedly. In fact, if you’re not sure [...]
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While some Keris are out getting skinny (I’m lookin’ at you, Ford) and other bloggers are posting pictures of bean dip and celery (…seriously, Cyndi? Celery?) I am licking the beater of a chocolate cake mix and wiping away snotty tears. My baby boy, my precious baby boy turns 13 today. He’s all, “I’m standing [...]
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Once upon a time I was 19 years old. On a Friday night (and sometimes even a Thursday) I’d pour my skinny little self into a teal-green tube dress, back-comb my spiral permed hair, layer makeup onto skin as fresh and dewy as my future babies’ butts and go out dancing. I looked great. I [...]
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A writing professor once told me there are only two plotlines: “The Quest” and “A Stranger Comes To Town.” Since I consider the latter to be the reversal of the former, in my highly erudite and intellectual opinion there is, in fact, only one plot. Given that, I don’t get real worked up when naysayers [...]
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When we moved to Kentucky a few years ago, I was surprised and delighted to find that Kentucky is the home of the USA’s only native spirit: Bourbon whiskey. The story of Bourbon is an American romance of born ingenuity, hard-work and seedy, seamy sexiness: Settlers in the backwoods of Kentucky brewed up bourbon for [...]
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I used to have a collection of letters–handwritten on wide-ruled notebook paper–from old boyfriends, which I dutifully purged in the early years of my marriage. Now I wish I’d kept those. Not because I need the mementos or miss the men, but because these days I don’t get any handwritten letters on any paper from [...]
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She stood across from me at the booksigning with the warmest smile. As I handed her my signed coaster (because STONE KISSED is an ebook, yo), she said, “I just love what you do. I’ve been reading romance forever, but I could never write a book.” She was gone before I could leap across the [...]
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Many years ago, a BFF named her newest mutt “Gracie.” I have this…thing about naming pets with people names. Back then, it wasn’t such a big deal. But sure enough, in the interim decade “Grace” has become one of the most popular new/old names for girls. Every time I meet a young woman named Grace, [...]
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Did you miss part one of my take on the RWA National conference, complete with compromising video? Here ’tis. The work of the conference began in earnest on Wednesday. I was a woman on a mission. Somehow, ENALR’s own Cynthia D’Alba finagled me into running the raffles at the PRO retreat (Children learn from this…don’t [...]
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