• ROW80

    A Belated ROWnd-Up: #ROW80

    How very odd. A Sunday passed, and I did not provide an update on my progress in A Round of Words in 80 Days. However, the round was officially over on Thursday, June 21, just as I was struggling with…

  • ROW80

    Roped and Ragged: #ROW80

    Each Sunday, I faithfully come here and report on my writing progress for the A Round of Words in 80 Days challenge. Week after week, I tend to knock some goals out like a prize-fighter, others I get several good punches…

  • ROW80

    Life's a Beach and #ROW80

    This photo of me was taken on Friday, and yes, that is the beach in the background! My best friend and I have an annual tradition of taking one day in the school year, dropping off our kids, and heading to…

  • ROW80

    Jr High All Over Again?: #ROW80

    Here’s a status update I recently posted to my personal Facebook page, which received quite a lot of here-here’s: I thought we left catty girl fights back in junior high. Now this week, I learned about Ann Romney (does she…

  • ROW80

    #ROW80: Don't Suck

    The weekend of March 30-April 1, I was in College Station, Texas playing a Guinness World Record game of baseball. I and 55 other players took the field for a total of 49 consecutive hours. We played in rotations, so I…

  • ROW80

    Cool or Clueless? #ROW80 Update

    I tell my kids I’m hip and cool. But they don’t believe it. And now I realize, why should they? Here’s a snippet of conversation my husband and I had last week: Hubby:  [reading news on computer] So Justin Timberlake…

  • Friday Fiction

    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…

  • Monday Musings

    Monday Musings: Gently Prodded

    Once you finish your first novel, you think, “Hey, I’m a writer!  I can do this!”  And you bask in that warm sunshine for a while, getting a nice tan and feeling pretty darn good about yourself. Until you start…