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I’m Across the Pond, but my BAGGAGE is Here!

posted on 07/12/2016

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Happy Tuesday everyone! I’m actually off the grid at the moment, doing a writing retreat and some research in England for a few days, sans wi-fi (WHAT????). So basically while you’re reading this, I am somewhere in England in the fetal position, twitching from BuzzFeed withdrawals. And missing Hubs and my kids, of course. In […]

Six Lessons from Little League

posted on 05/28/2016

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(Little League Baseball: A Love Story, Part 2) Last Saturday was the end of Skywalker’s first full season of little league baseball. His cute little team struggled all season long, with lots of losses and a few scattered wins. At the beginning of the season, many of them weren’t sure how to hold the bat, […]

Bittersweet Visit to the Family Farm

posted on 04/24/2016

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I imagine it’s always emotional going back to a place where you spent a healthy portion of your childhood. Especially when you have been away for a long time, and more especially when you have a long, hard history there. That’s how I feel about our family’s (former) farm in rural South Georgia between Pelham and […]

HB2: Why I’m (Still) Signing in North Carolina Next Week

posted on 04/19/2016

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This is a tough one. As you may have noticed, I don’t do much in the way of politics or even social activism on my blog. This isn’t because I’m not passionate about such issues or because I don’t hold opinions (oh, the opinions…). But when it comes to public discourse, I’d generally* prefer to let my characters […]

Questions Too Large for a Chaotic Friday Morning

posted on 04/15/2016

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You know those days? The ones where you are late for everything and your better half is massively helping but he’s late for everything too, and your energy is pulled in a thousand different directions and you’re questioning your sanity for trying to have two jobs and raise two kids and, incidentally, wondering who the […]

Spring Break in Washington DC

posted on 04/11/2016

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It’s my blog and I can post vacation pictures if I want to… (You’ll look at them, and you’ll like it, dammit.) So Hubs and I lost our freaking MINDS this year and decided that rather than a beach vacation, a Disney cruise, or some other simple getaway for spring break, we were going to […]

Dahlonega Literary Festival

posted on 03/14/2016

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Just posting a few shots from a super fun weekend in at the Dahlonega Literary festival in the North Georgia Mountains! If you’ve never been to this book festival, I can assure you it’s worth a drive from just about anywhere in the Southeast. DLF offers a great mix of regional and nationally known authors […]

By Request: All the Oscar Food Puns

posted on 03/04/2016

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In addition to the mildly inappropriate Baked Brie Larson recipe I posted earlier in the week, I’ve had a couple of requests for the full complement of Oscar food puns from Sunday night. So here they are! Hubs did what passes for a high school engineering project on the Bridge of Fries, which included three […]

Recipe: Baked Brie (Larson) in a Croissant “Room”

posted on 02/29/2016

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So. The Oscars. Loved them. Loved Chris Rock and Leo and the whole sha-bang. I probably have more to say on this at some point, but for now, let’s talk cheese! If you follow me on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, you already know that my friend Rob and I have been watching the Oscars together […]

This weekend: Win a REGRETS ONLY Tote Bag and Autographed Copy

posted on 02/26/2016

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I can’t believe it’s already here! REGRETS ONLY, the popular and highly rated sequel to THE MARRIAGE PACT is coming out on Tuesday, March 1st. For those of you who’ve read TMP, REGRETS ONLY is the story of Marci’s commitment-phobe event planner best friend Suzanne Hamilton, and the crazy circumstances that throw her in the […]