Short and sweet, what I’m celebrating this week: Hubby fixed the lawn mower. And the weed-whacker. And the truck’s tailgate. My cousin and his wife welcomed their first baby, a beautiful 8lb girl, on Wednesday! My yard is a colorful palette of blooming Irises, Peonies, Pansies, and other bright shrubs, the names of which I know …
Category: blessings
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Jun 01
Friday…Celebrate the Small Things!
Sneaking in another Celebrate the Small Things post… What I’m celebrating this week… 1) A great weekend away last weekend to cheer on youngest at his lacrosse tournament. 2) Another showing this week, and the potential buyers are coming back next week for a second walk-through. Yippee! 3) Learned how to turn off the u/g sprinklers during …
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May 24
Celebrate the Small Things Friday
Another great week and wonderful things to celebrate… 1) I am half-way through the initial review pass of ALL THAT MATTERS, and I cried too many times to count; I even had to walk away from the edits because I was so emotional. This is definitely worth celebrating. It’s also kind of surreal. 2) I …
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May 10
If it’s Friday, it must be time to Celebrate The Small Things!
I joined Celebrate the Small Things Friday blog hop a while ago. The inspiration of Viklit over at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author. And great inspiration it is! I have much to celebrate this week. On Monday, I finished the second-pass polish edits on my novel, Everything That Matters, and on Wednesday I sent it to …
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May 02
Did it!
I finished the edits on Everything That Matters (working title). At least I believe so. I still have to print off another hard copy and review, ensure I did not miss any nits found by my daughter, or miss–or double-up-on–chapter numbers, headings, etc., but as far as the heavy work goes (as in, rewriting the majority …
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Apr 30
Y is for Yippee! and You
Second to last day of the A to Z Challenge, and I am almost all lettered out. And totally chuffed. I decided to sign up for A to Z to challenge myself—no, to prove to myself, that I was better. Healed. Well enough to pick up the stiff, dry and cracked reins of my authorial dreams, get …
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Apr 20
R is for Rating Rejection
End of week three of the A to Z Challenge and we’re on letter R, for Rating Rejection. Because I’m traveling, and access to wi-fi spotty, I decided to reissue an old post, which adds to yesterday’s discussion on reentering the query gauntlet…There is such a thing as rejection excellence. Or an excellent rejection. What makes …
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Apr 19
Q is for Queries and Queens
Q-day in the A to Z Challenge and today, the theme is Queries and Queens. Yesterday I mentioned the complexities of human behavior and emotions, how motivation is different for different people, how different people cope with similar situations, how novelists strive to write engaging—saleable—books. Today I share how one woman helped me cope when …
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Apr 18
O is for October (and Opportunity)
It’s Letter O day in the A to Z Challenge (and I bet, because I’m so late posting, you thought I forgot. I didn’t, just a busy, away from home kind of day.) Now, on to today’s O-word, October! Why October when it’s almost six months away? Because October means, Surrey International Writers’ Conference! The Surrey …
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Apr 12
K is for Kismet
K is today’s A to Z Challenge letter, and today’s theme: Kismet. From Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary: Kismet (kis´met, -met, kis´-), n, fate; destiny. Also, kismat (kiz´mət, kis´-), [1840-50; Turk, Pers qismat, Ar qismahdivision, portion, lot, fate, akin to qasamato divide]. Kismet, as a word, has existed since the mid-19thcentury; I suspect kismet as a …
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