Busy Times!
So it's been one of those weeks where you get caught up in all the little minutia of life and forget what day it is. And that is, one hundred percent, why there was no post on Wednesday. I sat…
Do You Watch Award Shows?
I was flipping channels last night and happened to see the Golden Globes were on. It occurred to me that it was the start of TV and Movie award season. I've never been one to sit down and watch the…
And I Thought I Was Cold on Wednesday
So apparently Murphy (you know Murphy, right? He wrote all those laws?) reads this blog and decided to have a little chuckle. Here I was whining about being cold on Wednesday when really, it was nice and toasty in the…
Is Anyone Else Still Cold?
Having gone to college outside Chicago, I'm no stranger to the temperatures below freezing and arctic winds that blow straight through you no matter what you have on, but it's been a long time since college and yesterday just about…
Typing “The End” Never Gets Old
On Saturday I shared on my Facebook Author Page that I'd finished the first draft of Faith Departed, the first book in my next series. I don't actually type "The End" at the end of my manuscripts, but I've thought…
Happy New Year! My Resolutions…
Happy New Year! I have a hard time believing it's 2014 - I still feel like I'm too young to be living in the 2000s. (I remember as a child doing the math to see how old I'd be in…
End of Year Book Confessions
I didn't used to keep track of how many books I read in a year, but then a few people started asking me what I'd read over the last year and so for and so on and I realized it…
Is Christmas Over?
That's what my son asked me Thursday morning as we sleepily gathered at the kitchen table. My instinct was to say yes. After all, Christmas was the day before--and I suspected what he was really angling at was whether or…
Merry Christmas
The Birth of Jesus 2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went…