Aunt Nellie, An Un-Heralded Angel

I have been working non-stop editing my book the last week … and I am excited that I feel like it is close to being done. If you are interested in downloading a copy to edit please let me know and I will send you the link. It is really scary for me to let [...]

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I Grew Up On Erma Bombeck

                                                                                                                                                  I grew up on Erma Bombeck, at least from 1971, when I discovered If life is a bowl of cherries, What am I doing in the pits?   I knew immediately she was my kind of person and eventually bought every single book she ever wrote.    I love her. So when Alice had another meme [...]

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Another Plug For Mrs. Hughes

Okay, so I’m so darned jealous of Alice I can’t stand it. I tried to brush aside the fact that she really got an email from Mrs. Hughes by throwing out the fact that I had a famous friend too … ( Bobo, The Detective Chimp). But doggone it … Bobo has never sent me [...]

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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

I broke a serious rule last night.    I didn’t go to sleep.    It started innocently enough when I pulled up my book on Microsoft Word to edit it for a while as Lynn worked on our taxes.    Before I knew it the house was totally quiet except the tick of the seconds on the clock [...]

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Four Mini Geeks!

With Kim and Brett as their parents what else would you expect these four children to be engrossed in on a Sunday night?       They are all watching Luca play Scooby Doo: Monsters Unleashed on the computer!    Luca and Lincoln are no slouches when it comes to these kind of games … they can whoop Grandma [...]

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Sunday is My Favorite Day

I suppose most people have a favorite day of the week.   Mine is Sunday.   I love the peaceful calmness of the Sabbath … when I can pull back from the accelerating speed of the busy world and not only rest my body, but reflect and refurbish my heart and soul.    I love to put aside [...]

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"The Woods" by Harlan Coben

If you like a good “who done it” I recommend The Woods, by Harlan Coben.     This was intriguing from the beginning to the end and what I loved was that he was able to tell the story without the garbage mouth detective language that sometimes litters the pages so heavily.  (At least I can’t remember [...]

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Monkeying Around With My Movie Star Girlfriend …

Alice asked me to post this picture of me with my actress friend. She was unashamedly name dropping one day on her blog and I told her that in 2003 I met a movie star at a rest stop along Interstate 15 and we’d really hit it off. This little lady has her own children’s [...]

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Don’t Worry! Be Happy Now!

The last two days I have made two lists of one hundred things: one of things that make me happy and one of things that don’t make me happy.   Here is my purely scientific discovery:   It is a lot more fun to think happy thoughts.   There is power in positive thinking.   When I started writing [...]

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100 Things I don’t Like

Not to be negative … but there is no other way to list things that don’t make you happy, is there?    Of course there are serious things none of us like … these don’t include those.  1.   People who borrow things without permission 2.   People who don’t do what they say they will do 3.   [...]

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