Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 19th, 2010
OK, so thanks to Matt, the extremely nice owner of Fibers.com, I get to create my very own shirt and do a review and giveaway on my blog after I receive it. The problem is, I’ve collected so many cool/wise/humorous/insightful sayings over time (all to do with writing) that I can’t decide what to put [...]
Posted in Holidays, Miscellaneous on Jan 2nd, 2010
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2010 is to be more honest and personal in my blogging. There are several subjects I’ve been wanting to tackle that are going to require depth, courage and exposing some of my most raw feelings. While this is daunting for several reasons, I’m generally a very open person, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 24th, 2009
I’m happy to announce the birth of another parenting blog, authored by Yours Truly. It’s on the Psychology Today website and it’s called “Outnumbered!” Seeing as it’s about my experiences being the parent of a larger-than-average family, I feel the title is more than appropriate. I plan to cover everything from childhood depression to seizures [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 15th, 2009
I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been having major problems with my internet going down constantly and without warning. I’m not sure what’s going on, but my internet provider has already come once to fix it and now it’s acting up again, just a little while after they left. I’m hoping it’ll go back [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 8th, 2009
After being without internet for most of last week, I’m happy to say that I’m finally back online.
Though I felt like I lost an appendage the entire 5 days (but who’s counting?), I also felt a tremendous sense of relief at the time I had freed up to do other things besides work. It also [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 21st, 2009
I’m headed out tonight for a writer’s conference. Put on by my amazing and wonderful writer’s group, Freelance Success, this baby is, as luck would have it, taking place on a cruise ship leaving from Miami on Friday afternoon and headed to the Bahamas on Saturday. Best of all, my sister, also a writer and [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 17th, 2009
Well, someone had to do it. So when I stumbled across the link to the Blogger’s Choice Awards, I had to nominate myself.
You see, I’ve noticed these fancy blog awards on other bloggers’ sites that have caused me some major drooling issues. Oh, what I wouldn’t give for some sort of parenting blog award (my [...]
Posted in Giveaways!, Miscellaneous on Sep 25th, 2009
Just in case you haven’t increased your chances of winning the LeapFrog Tag Reading System bundle that I and 9 other bloggers are giving away by visiting their blogs, here’s another brief rundown of why I think these blogs are great.
Blog Salad — Ron S. Doyle is one of the wittiest writers I know and [...]
Posted in Giveaways!, Miscellaneous on Sep 22nd, 2009
Just in case you haven’t increased your chances of winning the LeapFrog Tag Reading System bundle that I and 9 other bloggers are giving away by visiting their blogs, here’s a brief rundown of why I think these blogs are great, beginning today with the three whose contests are ending the soonest.
Confessions of a Mean [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Sep 6th, 2009
I’m on The Writer’s [Inner] Journey today!
The author, Meredith Resnick, wrote this:
In honor of back to school I asked five of the writers I greatly admire to weigh in. With a very loose hat tip to the wonderful Raymond Carver–I wanted to know what these writers talk about when they talk about back to school. [...]
