Last Friday I moved my daughter into the dorm. She has a week of freshmen activities to help her make friends and familiarize her with the campus before school starts on Monday. With classes coming soon, I was reminded of an email I received a while back from a student who was working on a research paper about teacher certification exams. In her online exploration, she ran across a blog post I … [Read more...]
Birds and Words–my literary guest room
We moved recently from a downsized townhome to a one level house. This meant we needed some new furniture. We've filled up the den and turned a little den off the back of the house into a combination sunroom/library. We had enough to decorate one guest room in a beach theme but the other one sat empty for a while. Since it's located across from our offices (My husband took another bedroom for his … [Read more...]
A Luncheon at Belmont Mansion
Yesterday, I had the pure pleasure of meeting a bookclub at Belmont Mansion (the setting of my Belmont Mansion novels) for a delicious luncheon, wonderful sharing time, and then a tour of the mansion. I never tire of being in Adelicia Acklen's beautiful home. Pay no attention to that woman in the background flashing us. Those Victorians and their naked statues… Sheesh! A … [Read more...]
Giving Back
This week I have the privilege of coaching a group of writers at the Oregon Christian Writers’ Coaching Conference in Portland. I’m flying there today, in fact. This wonderful event offers writers a chance to meet with editors, authors, publishers and literary agents during the four-day conference. I’m really looking forward to being part of it! Ever since I was asked to speak to writers for the … [Read more...]
How do I love thee, Olympics? Let me count the ways.
I'm an Olmypics-aholic. Every few years, when the Olympics roll around, my enthusiasm for the games inevitably outpaces my husband's. He'll pad off, shaking his head, searching for a saner room of the house to retreat to while I attempt to watch every hour of evening Olympic coverage plus as much as I can squeeze in on the weekends and via the Today Show in the mornings. My first Olympic … [Read more...]
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