Today’s my fifteenth wedding anniversary.
 Fif. Teen. Years.
 Dayum. And in two years, there will be undeniable evidence that I’ll be old enough to be the mother of a high schooler.  In four years I’ll be sharing my car.
  :ignore: 
 Enough of that.
 So yesterday the husband had one mission: take the tall kid to the powersports shop and buy […]

Honest.
I couldn’t do my letters to the Idol because we watched it during a late dinner so I couldn’t write in my notebook. For some reason I can’t do them after—they have to be a stream of consciousness thing. David Cook rocked—and totally lived up to Cowell’s awesome challenge. It’ll no doubt be a David […]

How hard can it be to find a black, zip-up hooded sweatshirt? I think I have a better chance of a hoarde of agents and editors descending upon my home, clamoring for my grocery list, than I do of finding a black hoodie.
Having exhausted my usual retail haunts (yeah, that would be Wal-Mart), I ventured […]

 So today marks the start of my diet new eating lifestyle. Only took me about two hours to figure out how many Points (tm or r or something) to charge for a “splash of milk”.  Sitting here with a small DD iced coffee rather than a large is not making me happy, so I went to get […]

Fine. I went.
I had to have a tetanus shot.
And I have to take Augmentin for 10 days, which the nurse cheerfully informed might make me feel nauseated, and I will almost certainly feel, because of the shot, as though a large man punched me in the arm.
It’s all Angie’s fault. She knows why.

Pretty, isn’t she? Serene, even.
It’s a lie. She’s a vicious, feral jungle cat who will—suddenly and without remorse—shred the finger off the person who feeds her. Yeah, that would be me. So what happened?
I was letting her bite me, and then she really bit me. I know, huh?
Since Jinx was a wee baby […]

So I’ve been working on a contemporary category for…ever? (I’ve also been working on not starting blog posts with the word so. Neither’s going well.) Quite frankly, if I didn’t love the story and love the characters and desperately want to write this book, it would have been scrapped a long time ago.
No matter how […]

So I have a mirror now. I know, most people have them, but we really only had the medicine cabinet mirrors. Then we remodeled the downstairs half-bath (my bathroom) and the husband hung a real mirror over the vanity. Yeah, facing the toilet. The mirror is nothing short of girnormous, and there’s no escaping it.
Now, […]

Brenda Novak’s 2008 Online Auction to Benefit Diabetes Research starts tomorrow and there about a gazillion things I’d like to buy—starting with the autographed Ali photo.
One thing that really caught my eye—some of the editorial evaluations have a promised response time, ranging from 24 hours to 2 weeks.
Dayum!
Considering I’ve had a partial hanging out […]

My unabashed adoration for secret baby romances isn’t something I keep buried behind the bassinet. I’ve even written two of them myself. As a reader I’ve gone through a ton of them, and I have certain expectations:
1. Whatever separated them post-conception can’t sustain the book. There has to be a conflict in the here and […]