April 19, 2010 – 11:55 am
I had a fantastic time in Portland, OR on Saturday attending the Portland Rose Chapter’s fantastic 10th anniversary Romance Reader Luncheon where I gave this year’s keynote speech. Two hundred readers and writers attended the lunch in the beautiful, historic Governor’s Hotel ballroom and I took gift bags for all with my JP reader goodies and a [...]
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February 24, 2010 – 5:38 pm
My Gurney boys love the water and the water loves them! It’s been fun taking Mac to the beach where he can play with Dad.
Mac has learned to not just crawl, while we’ve been here, but to haul. He’s everywhere! I’m exhausted chasing him around a not-yet-baby-proofed house. Ugh. I forgot how busy, busy, busy [...]
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February 7, 2010 – 3:48 pm
Hey everyone, I’m getting your emails and comments and know you’re all wondering:
1) who won
and
2) where the rest of the comments are
Well, I know #1, and am wondering about #2. Unfortunately, my web team is off today and I won’t be able to get the blog issues fixed until tomorrow so I’m going to hold [...]
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November 19, 2009 – 12:07 am
The flu season has hit and poor Jenn, intrepid founder of the Endless Summer Girlfriend Book Club, has come down with a nasty bug and had to be rushed to Urgent Care for care.
We’re not cancelling tomorrow’s book club discussion, as much as we are postponing it until Jenn’s better. She wanted to set a [...]
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November 5, 2008 – 9:44 am
It’s the day after the election and yet I think my election fever is worse today than yesterday. I couldn’t sleep last night after the election results, and the acceptance speech. I couldn’t stop thinking, couldn’t stop replaying the moment Obama’s family walked onto the platform at the park in Chicago–dad, mom, two little girls.
As [...]
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August 18, 2008 – 9:45 am
Like others, I’ve been riveted to the TV during the Olympics, particularly the swimming events as I was raised in Central California in a swimming family. I made my summer money from the time I was fourteen by teaching private swim lessons in our backyard pool. I started by playing games with kids, teaching them [...]