One of my best friends from high school, Anne Morse, just arrived with her family in Hawaii for the next week. They’re out sight-seeing today and I’m taking care of family stuff but tonight we all hope to grab dinner in Waikiki together. I haven’t gotten any writing done since end of last week which [...]
It’s the 4th of July weekend and I’m finishing my chapter 2 today of my new Harlequin, an intense ‘secret baby’ story set in Sicily. I’ve spent the past week working on chapter 2, tearing it apart, putting it back together, editing, tweaking, and just couldn’t figure out what was wrong until I realized that the stakes [...]
Mac has become very busy. Extremely busy. He loves to walk and run, explore and pull things apart. He loves to push things closed, too, including all doors, and sometimes his fingers are in between. I’ve been trying to keep Mac out of trouble by letting him help me whenever he can. There are some [...]
I’ve been in Hawaii a week today, but before I left Bellevue last week, I had the chance to spend part of the afternoon with some very smart, very literate young ladies who attend Seattle’s French-American School together. I’d met one of the moms at a fundraiser back in April (at least I think it [...]
I leave in two weeks for Hawaii for the summer. It sounds fabulous but is also kind of wrenching as my two oldest sons will be with their dad for the first month and then come to me for the second–and I’ll be away for one of those weeks they’re with me attending Romance Writers [...]
April 23, 2010 – 12:43 pm
So very excited….Brenda Novak’s amazing annual auction to raise money for diabetes research is almost here! The auction kicks off May 1st and is going to be spectacular. I’ve been browsing the list of items available and have ear marked several things I want to bid on–and win! As most of you know, I always donate [...]
