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Unlazy Summer Days 

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Hi friends and Happy Wednesday!   I hope you’re having a good week and a good start to your summer. Like me, you have  probably heard of the “lazy days of summer.” I love the saying, but I don’t think most summers are lazy. At least not around here now, and in retrospect, not when I was a kid either. As kids, how many of you spent your summer with your friends running through the … [Read more...]

Death By Details

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While creating a novel, a writer (and eventually her editors) go through many stages. From early brainstorming on plot and characters, to research, to proposing the premise, to writing a first draft, to gaining feedback from trusted early readers, to revisions, and then onward to the editorial process. I admit I enjoy certain phases more than others. I like dreaming up situations to put my … [Read more...]

♫♪ And There Was Music ♫♪

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Let me first admit that I took piano lessons for three years as a kid and I hardly EVER practiced. I played by ear, so whenever I sat down at the piano bench, I was much more interested in working out my own version of the latest pop song than practicing. My poor music teacher did manage to teach me a couple of songs, including the one in the video at the end of this post, but when I realized that … [Read more...]

Seven European Road Trip Favorites

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Our family recently returned from a two-week-long road trip to Europe in celebration of our oldest daughter's graduation from college and our 30th wedding anniversary. Here are my favorites from the trip, in the order in which we experienced them... 1. Nostalgic Frankfurt, Germany We began our trip in Frankfurt, Germany where I lived with my family when I was 9-13 years old. I'd never … [Read more...]

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