Monday Musings: Research & Reconnaissance
My friend (call her Susie Q) and I walk into the Houston International Boat Show to see all kinds of marine vessels displayed around the large convention hall. One of the first things I notice is that these events are…
Friday Fiction: What to Read Next?
My Next Reads Stack It’s a toss-up for whether my Netflix queue or my Next Reads stack is larger. My husband recently said, “I could have three lifetimes, and never get through all the books I want to read.” I…
Wednesday Words: A Case of the Quirky
I was listening to preacher James MacDonald recently and he commented that his children used to ask silly questions that have to do with quirky words. His two examples were “Why is the word abbreviation so long?” and “Why is…
Monday Musings: Writing is Like . . .
On Friday, the brilliant Tracey Hansen tagged me in a “new bloggy project exercise thingy” called Writing Is Not Like a Box of Chocolates: A Meme. THE RULES: Take the phrase “Writing is like . . .” and finish it.…
Friday Fiction: Flash Fiction #2
Having finished a first draft of my middle-grade novel, I am awaiting editing comments from a beta reader. I’m not ready to delve into another large project, but I do enjoy continuing to write fiction. Thankfully, there are some great…
Wednesday Words: Tom Swifties
The First Tom Swift Book Thanks to David Lubar and his book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, I discovered a couple of years ago the fun of making up Tom Swifties. Tom Swift was a character from a book series published…
Monday Musings: The Versatile Blogger Award
My sincerest thanks to the talented Tracey Hansen who nominated me for The Versatile Blogger Award. I strongly encourage you to visit her at her blog, Tracey Hansen Will Write for Food. Tracy’s razor-sharp wit is either the stuff of…
Friday Fiction: A Writing Doppelganger?
Barack Obama & Ilham Anas Do you know what a doppelganger is? I didn’t – that is, until an episode of How I Met Your Mother defined the word for me. According to American Heritage Dictionary, however, a doppelganger is…
Wednesday Words: Fun with Phobias
I should state at the outset that if you have a phobia, it isn’t fun. I know someone who has ranidaphobia, and the one time a frog got into her house, it was not pleasant. Having said that, the names…
Monday Musings: What Does Your Car Say?
I recently noticed that a Twitter friend of mine (William G. Jones) mentioned in his brief bio: “I drive a ’57 Chevy.” On Twitter, you only get 160 characters to describe yourself, so you have to think hard about what…