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One of the reasons I adore Oh Patient One is that he can be very whimsical, and even the smallest, teeniest memory he treasures dearly.
So, this summer we made a couple of trips to Wales because a) it is a beautiful country, b) Oh Patient One is from there originally, c) he wanted to revisit [...]
. . . Try, try again.
That’s what my parents always said to encourage my sisters and I whenever we were thwarted in our young lives. I’m pretty keen on that advice. After all, it took me several years of try, try again to write something that would be published, and finally (after many rejections) 32AA [...]
For the first time ever, I decided that this was the year for me to swell the writerly ranks at NaNoWriMo.org. It’s been such a hectic time, I really felt I needed a kick start on several book proposals I’m working on.
National Novel Writing Month is a yearly challenge organized by Chris Baty. Commencing on [...]
So, things have still been hectic, and I’ve been even more quiet online!
Without further ado, I’d like to announce two more contest winners. The Fortunate Fashioninstas are (insert drumroll) Cheryl F of Fort Wayne, IN, and Mina G from Hamburg, PA.
Congratulations, gals! Copies of Almost Fabulous will be in the mail to you both as [...]
I am so so late announcing this, forgive me! Things have been rather hectic over the past few months and I can be a bit of a scatter brain (every day when I wake up I have that moment of confusion, and wonder, “Where the hell am I?).
Anyway, without further deliberation, I am happy to [...]
That would be me. Yes. I am a self-admitted cry baby.
I am crying because of a piece I just read on the BBC’s website about a wonderful feat committed by a wonderful human being.
Nicholas Winton, now Sir Nicholas Winton (he was knighted in 2003), saved the lives of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia. Between March [...]
Unfortunately, I have a habit of forgetting dates. Especially our wedding anniversary. Fortunately, Oh Patient One (who is pretty good at remembering dates) also has a habit of forgetting the date of our wedding anniversary.
Not that we hated our wedding, or anything, because it was absolutely great. It was a lot of fun. We got [...]
So, about five years ago my great-uncle went to see his primary care doctor because of trouble with his heart, and his doctor sent him to see a heart specialist. The heart specialist told my great-uncle that he needed serious heart surgery.
But then the evil National Health Service (NHS) Death Panel stepped in and decreed [...]
You knew there’d be one, yes? Because I always have trouble traveling. And a tale to tell. . .
While in Rotterdam last week Friend A contacted me to say that Friend B, who I thought was house hunting in the UK, was in fact in hospital in a town near Rotterdam. Naturally, I wanted to [...]
So. Let’s have a brief hop, skip, and a jump down memory lane.
When I was about twelve or thirteen I discovered my grandmother’s stash of Harlequin Mills & Boon romances and became hooked on the genre immediately. So much so (and also due to my love of Jane Austen’s novels) that I wrote a short [...]
