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11/15/201311/15/2013

Friday

It’s the end of the week. I like endings. I like beginnings and, truth be told, I like middles too. Much like chocolate, lol, dark, milk, you name it, I like it. Today I feel the need to clear my desk and my head and focus. I’m into a nonfiction subject that doesn’t translate well…

08/11/201308/11/2013

Murder We Write

Today, just five minutes from my house, which was a first, I went to the 3rd annual SinC networking luncheon, put on by the Murder We Write, SinC, Triad Chapter. I first joined Sisters in Crime back in 2005, I think. It was fun to buy a book like The Book of Poisons, or Forensics for…

07/01/201310/27/2016

june

I lose June every year and it makes me sad. It’s when we start the registration for the fall conference and one thing leads to another and WHOOSH! the month is gone, with nothing to show for it, but pixels on a computer screen. This year I was a bit more productive. In addition to beta…

05/03/201304/30/2013

grown

Grown. Growing up. Some have it difficult, maybe not enough food, or not a stable home, maybe an insane parent or guardian, maybe there’s a war going on outside your door. I get that, and not for the first time think that if we have to be licensed for cars, and guns and maybe even…

04/17/201304/15/2013

voices

It was a couple of years back, at the wrap-up party for the SCBWI LA conference. I was sitting at a table, poolside, with a couple of other RA’s when Richard Peck came up and asked if he could sit with us and eat his dinner. Natch, we said yes, rather enthusiastically. I mean, come…