The picture above is of my friend Cecile. She was the one behind the camera in the photo of me from last week’s post. She was often behind the camera, as evidenced by the number of pictures in my shoebox from those flannel-clad and crazy-haired high school years. This picture is a rare glimpse behind …
I ran across this photo recently. It was taken the summer before I went to college, which was exactly *gasp* 18 years ago. It came to mind when I was thinking about what to write here this week. I thought about composing a list of tips for students headed off to college for the first …
Two weeks ago I attended the Romance Writers of America (RWA) conference in Atlanta, GA. It was an amazing experience and I could write and write and write about it, but I promise you I won’t. Instead I will highlight the three biggest things I learned in an easy to digest, non-writer specific list:
I’m on vacation this week, so I’m doing a little recycling here. I wrote the post below back in 2011 when I first started blogging, so it’s probably a safe bet that many of you haven’t seen it. In the spirit of “Christmas in July” I’m re-posting it today. My grandmother Mary (I’m named for …
My holiday weekend (it was the Fourth of July, here in the US), ended with a bit more excitement than I had planned for. Saturday night when I went to bed around 11:00pm I noticed that my eyelids were just a little bit swollen. I’ve had a ongoing issue with some yet to be determined …
This week is the second of a two week period that my friend Karen and I are the same age. Our birthdays are two weeks apart, making me exactly fifty weeks younger than her. I was fascinated by this as a child, and loved being her age for those two weeks. Our friendship is an …
So, I had a birthday recently. Sometimes I forget my age. Really, I actually have to stop and think about it if I haven’t done the math in a while. I think people assume I’m faking this to avoid revealing the number, or using it as some sort of lament (i.e, “I’m so old, I …
It was the summer before my senior year in college and I needed one more science class to graduate; so I decided to stay in my tiny college town. A friend from my residence hall was also staying in town and had the hook up on an apartment to sublet. It was pretty bare bones …
