Posts Tagged: the marriage pact

2012: Ready, Set… Where Am I Again?

posted on 01/05/2012

Happy New Year, y’all! Hope everyone enjoyed their winter holidays. Here’s a picture of me doing who knows what on the beach last week: Seriously, what am I doing here? Embarrassing beach dancing aside, I do feel very refreshed after spending some quality time with my family doing absolutely nothing. When the holiday break started, […]

Rules for Reading and Writing (Not So Much with the ‘Rithmetic)

posted on 12/06/2011

You may have noticed that I’ve added a new page to the blog listing what I’ve been reading. I got the idea from another author-blogger and thought it would be interesting to see how having the list impacts what and when I read (if at all) or what people think about my writing. Actually, I’d […]

NaNoWriMo: One of my Best Failures Yet

posted on 11/28/2011

Well, folks, it’s November 28th, time for a status update. If you are one of those root-for-the-underdog, “maybe she’ll pull it out of the fire at the last minute and surprise us” kind of readers, I’m sorry to disappoint you. I think it’s highly unlikely I will write 32,940 words in the next 59 hours […]

The Voice

posted on 11/22/2011

It seems writers are always talking about voice. Finding your voice, choosing a voice for a story… and even, on some occasions, hearing voices. (No one ever said we writers were the most mentally stable crowd.) On a personal note today, I’d like to join the rest of the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Nation in […]

NaNoWriMo – The (Almost) Halfway Point

posted on 11/14/2011

Perhaps against my better judgment, I am participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this year. As I might have guessed when I signed up, I am more than 50% behind pace to complete the 50,000 words in my latest novel, REGRETS ONLY. With each day that passes, it becomes less and less likely that […]

Haunted

posted on 11/01/2011

Last night we took the boys Trick-or-Treating with some friends and had a great time. I didn’t know whether Monkey would be able to keep up with the four- to seven-year-old crowd on his little two-year-old pirate legs, but he was a champ. I don’t think he cares much about the candy yet — last […]

Words, Words, Words

posted on 10/28/2011

I’ve had language on the brain this week. First and rather unpleasantly, there is the language of the law. Despite a house-wide lack of sleep, the major disruption in our family right now relates to one poorly-written phrase in an outdated will of my father’s. It’s a long story I can’t tell in detail, but […]

Writing the Good Fight

posted on 10/10/2011

I posted my last blog entry seven weeks ago today. Two days later, my son was born. A beautiful 8-pound baby boy who looks like his father and loves to be held by his mommy. He is my treasure. Big brother is so proud — already trying to show him the ropes. The birth was […]

The Sex Blog

posted on 08/22/2011

The weekend on bed rest gave me some time to catch up on a little reading around the blogosphere, including “What’s Wrong with Sex?” by JA Konrath, one of the powerhouse voices in indie publishing. While Joe’s books themselves aren’t necessarily my cup of tea — because of the genre, not the quality of writing […]

I’m almost too embarrassed to tell you this

posted on 08/08/2011

Maybe it’s an occupational hazard (writer + counselor), but I often notice themes emerging in my life and work. Right now one of those themes, especially with my teen and adult female clients, is humiliating experiences. Most often things that might happen, and would be so devastating that the person would never recover. Falling down […]