I love vacations because you get to unwind. Sleep in. Eat real meals. And in Australia we had such lovely meals, starting with rich mochas and lattes followed by plates of eggs, bacon, sausage, tomato, mushrooms, and heaps of buttered toast. We didn’t go hungry in Australia. And we didn’t really think about the consequences. […]
Category: Mom World
Just A Buck or Two
I sometimes do too much, multi-task a little too zealously, i.e. ask my kids not to be gaseous in my office while I’m writing a love scene, or return phone calls while making a purchase online, or pay online bills while listening to voice mail. Sometimes the multi-tasking is relatively successful, and other times I’m […]
Bra Hopping
The Flirting with Forty book release party is just two days away and I had a list of endless errands to get done today, among them buying more drink cups, order blown up book covers at Kinko’s, deliver vases to florist for tropical arrangements, and confirm with the musicians, a Hawaiian trio composed of University […]
Cats That Kiss
My kids have returned from Hawaii to Seattle, I remain in Hawaii for one last week, Flirting with Forty is already shipping from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and the Hawaii house has a kitten that thinks it is not a cat. I think I get cranky in Hawaii because I don’t sleep as well […]
Good Intentions
That is the best I can hope for when my boys are adults and bringing their future girlfriends/wives home to meet me. They will prepare girlfriend with a brief overview, ‘Mom isn’t like everybody else, but she means well. She has good intentions.’ And then they will open the front door and hug me and […]
Slug Patrol
I love having boys. I love the purity of their energy. Their drive. Their fierce passion to compete, to do, to be. And yet every now and then, when my son Ty fills my purse with sticks and rock gardens, shoves weedy flowers in my pockets, or creates snail houses with my tupperware, I wonder […]
Crabs and Ticks
I haven’t posted in a long time. I thought about posting almost daily, but each time when I got close enough to the computer to write something for my blog, I backed away and checked email instead. You see, I’m been afraid to post as I’m afraid I’m going to be myself. I’m going to […]
Best Bits
I’m working on my new book for Warner and it’s my favorite part of writing—the non-writing. I love it. I don’t sit at the computer more than an hour at a stretch. I get to read nearly all day. I make notes, on note cards. I scribble in margins. I highlight text in my books, […]
All In A Day’s Work
The day started fine. Well, sort of fine. I woke up to the sound of my oldest blowing his nose, coughing, and doing that disgusting throat clearing thing between pathetic moans. It continued with him convincing me he couldn’t go to school being deathly sick and with me sending him back to bed even as […]
Go Peeps!
After a couple rather dry posts I’m going to give you a sweet one. It’s a little story about how much I love Peeps, that marshmallow dipped in colored sugar treat that first appeared at Easter as little chicks but is available for all big holidays as everything from Halloween ghosts to Christmas trees to […]
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