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TROPICAL STORM FAY - Monday, August 18th 2008 5:12 PM
It's getting boring staying home. We’ve been shut in all day, listening to news reports. Most of the worse weather is situated down in Dade County and the Keys. At 5pm, the...
THE ORANGE BLOB - Saturday, August 16th 2008 7:19 PM
It’s baaaack! That big orange blob on our TV screens indicating a brewing storm. I get sick to my stomach looking at it and listening to the forecasters. It could strengthen....
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS - Saturday, August 16th 2008 6:07 AM
I love shopping at going out of business sales. Albertsons is the latest store to have a blowout sale near us. I’ve been there twice, raiding the aisles and cruising for...
NOT ANOTHER WORRY! - Thursday, August 14th 2008 11:26 AM
Re the Kitchen: The last two days were quiet, with no workmen in the house. We are waiting for the granite template guy to come this afternoon and measure for the countertops....
RECENT READS - Tuesday, August 12th 2008 7:37 AM
RECENT READS IN JULY 2008 DEATH IS DISPOSABLE by Evan Marshall  (mystery set in NYC) Anna Winthrop works for the NY Sanitation Department as a garbage dept. supervisor....
KITCHEN: DAY 6 - Monday, August 11th 2008 3:38 PM
There WAS a field rat in our garage. The kitchen guys threw all their debris into a truck and chased the rat away. Whew! The CEO also agreed some of the color variations were...
THE CREATURE IN THE GARAGE - Sunday, August 10th 2008 8:38 PM
Things are looking a lot better. My friend Dawn was right. She said: During a renovation, don’t look until it's finished. I’m a lot more pleased with the cabinets....
KITCHEN DAY 5 - Sunday, August 10th 2008 9:38 AM
I feel better today. The kitchen guys are here, and I fitted some items on the shelves. He said the doors wouldn’t interfere, but he’ll measure the old shelves for...
KITCHEN DAY 3 & 4 - Saturday, August 9th 2008 9:45 PM
KITCHEN: DAY 3 Painter came early this morning to finish painting over patches on wall. Electrician followed, changing the location for the electric range connection and...
KITCHEN: DAY 2 - Thursday, August 7th 2008 4:22 PM
This morning, the painters came to patch up holes in the wall and paint the area above where the new cabinets will come in at a different level than the old ones. They painted...
KITCHENS - Wednesday, August 6th 2008 2:15 PM
KITCHENS I am 80 pages away from finishing my revisions. Unfortunately, I did not make my self-imposed deadline. Today started our kitchen renovation, and with workmen in the...
REVISIONS - Wednesday, July 30th 2008 7:18 AM
I am more than halfway through my self-made revisions for the current WIP. The first 270 pages are as polished as I can make them. It’s painstaking and tedious work, because I...
CRIME & PUNISHMENT MUSEUM - Tuesday, July 22nd 2008 7:35 AM
After a pizza lunch at the Matchbox in D.C.’s Chinatown section, we headed over a block or two to the Crime & Punishment Museum. Here we stood in a line designated on...
NEWSEUM - Saturday, July 19th 2008 5:48 AM
During our trip north to Maryland, we took the Metro into D.C. one day. We strolled down the building-lined streets toward the Newseum. After paying a $20 admission fee, we...
ADVENTURE ON THE AUTOTRAIN - Tuesday, July 15th 2008 11:26 AM
We are home from our trip north, happy to be in our own comfortable environment but not so happy to face the mountain of mail, chores, laundry, and such. I need a week to get...
TAKING A BREAK - Tuesday, June 24th 2008 5:58 AM
With my book done and vacation coming, I will be taking a break from my blog for a few weeks. Plus I'm still fighting this stubborn cold. So here's wishing y'all a happy Fourth...
AT THE FINISH LINE! - Saturday, June 21st 2008 2:57 PM
I’m done! I finished the rough draft for my WIP at page 449. Hurray! Now I’ll work through critique group corrections, fill in descriptive details, then start my...
HUMAN MISERY - Wednesday, June 18th 2008 5:30 PM
No, I am not talking about floods or tornadoes, hunger or pain. I mean the Common Cold. I have a cold. I hate colds. The scratchy throat that heralds its arrival. The sore...
THE FINAL RUN - Thursday, June 12th 2008 7:55 AM
I am down to the final battle scene in my WIP at page 425. Yes, I’m over my word count. Oh well. So it’ll give the reader more story to enjoy. Anyway, my heroes have to blow...
MILITARY RANKS & TROLLS - Thursday, June 5th 2008 5:44 AM
If this seems an odd topic for my blog, keep reading. Yesterday, I wrote one page instead of my usual five. Besides taking time off to pay bills and carry out other mundane...
DAILY GOALS - Friday, May 30th 2008 3:49 PM
As a morning person, I like to start writing early in the day, before reading the newspaper, turning on the TV, or answering phone calls. Coffee heightens mental alertness, so...
CRYSTAL SKULL - Friday, May 23rd 2008 9:18 AM
I wrote about the crystal skulls long before the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie and before Mysteries of the Crystal Skulls aired on the sci fi...
A GHOST DID IT - Saturday, May 17th 2008 6:06 AM
A fan wrote me recently mentioning an error she’d found in PERISH BY PEDICURE, book number eight in my Bad Hair Day mystery series featuring hairstylist Marla Shore: On page...
BOOK CLUBS - Tuesday, May 13th 2008 6:37 AM
I’ve never joined a local book club for the simple reason that I like to choose what I read. I don’t want a group leader telling me to read a novel that has no appeal to me,...
FROM TRASH TO TREASURE - Saturday, May 3rd 2008 12:05 PM
One writer’s trash may be a researcher’s treasure. Recently, I read another author’s blog about how she sorted through her early rejection letters and tossed them out...