I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve done it before, but this year I’m very excited because I took the time to plot out a book beforehand, mostly. I had about 3/4 of it plotted before I started writing on November 2. (November first is a Holy Day of obligation for the Catholic Church and I …
Recently, I had the good fortune to reconnect with two of my cousins on my father’s side through a group on Facebook for people with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). This is the disease that is on my father’s side of the family and which is the reason I had my transplant ten years ago. I …
was down .8 this week, but while that’s good, considering I didn’t track anything last week, that’s not what’s on my mind right now. My husband asked me an insightful question. He knows I’m not where I want to be and this weekend I was very down on myself. This was the year I was …
In this post, I talked about a pair of earrings I saw in a catalog that cost about $45 and how I thought I could make something similar for a lot cheaper. Today I got the supplies and made the earrings. Here are some pictures! I wanted to put two blue and one green bead …
So, yesterday, we went over to the neighbors’ house to give their daughter a present for her new baby. I made this top years ago and I found it in a pile of tops I had. The backing came from my mother’s stash and I bought binding at the fabric store.
Hi, all! I hope you’re having a great weekend, even though it’s still kind of early on Saturday morning. Last night, after we put our son to bed, I settled my computer on my lap in bed and checked my email. I got a note from Lin, an editor from Crescent Moon Press, an epublisher …
I’m going to start sharing with you all my craft endeavors that have nothing to do with fiction. As I mentioned in a previous post, I believe everyone is creative in their own way. I hope, with these Creatively Imperfect posts, I’ll inspire you to live a more creative life. I chose the title Creatively …
My daughter recently got an internship with a big NYC literary agency. It is exactly the internship and the kind of job she wants and she is thrilled. Busy, stressed, but thrilled. It’s all “virtual” in that she still lives in her apartment near the LSU campus and is taking classes, but she works two …
A few days ago, we were all in the car coming home from church. This is a pretty rare thing. Not coming home from church. Or going to church, for that matter. No, usually the whole family isn’t in the car together. Our daughter has her own car and her own apartment, so usually, she’s …
I’m a writer. Sure, it’s been seven years since I had anything published, but I have one novel out looking for a place to live (publisher), and I’m currently writing another one. There are half a dozen more in my head. When my first book came out years ago, my mother was proud but also …