Hot and Cold

The weather this winter has been erratic. Whether you believe in climate change or not, if you lived on our small patch of the earth, you would also be confused. My dog doesn’t know which coat he should wear so he is in a constant state of shed. I have 7 different coats, jackets and…

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Boring

I am never bored, but not because I am always industrious, it is because much like shopping for tires, I can find the absurd in everything. I can formulate questions that make people pull out their own hair or if I am inclined the kinds of questions that make them want to pull out mine.…

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Choices

We went to get new tires yesterday. Do you know how many different tires there are? Now I am not even commenting on the sizes, but in our size alone there must have been 100 choices. They did not have all of them in stock, but have no fear, they could order them if we…

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Saga, Series or Serial

Okay so at times my brain goes in a million different directions. This is a good example. I am writing some of the promotion copy and am caught between three terms. As I explain you will realize why we cannot or should not use all three, even though it would be fun to tangle up…

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My Symbol

This stick figure symbol  is at the center of my embosser which I am using when I sign books. It was a Christmas gift from my husband and brilliant!

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Exciting NEW Art

Athena, my wonderful and talented artist is creating another scene from one of the books. I am not going to spoil the surprise and tell you what it is about, but look for it on the website soon. It is fantastic!

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Our Moon

Got up early to admire the sight of our moon and saw clouds over the face of it.  Then it sank too low to see. The coffee was good, th colors lighting our morning sky impressive, but now I think I’ll sink back under the covers and wait for something beyond sunrise before I greet…

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Oven

When it took more than twenty minutes to bake up a pan of biscuits, I knew the oven was broken. It has been a weird day, having someone come and look at the oven, finding out the coil on the bottom was toast. Not really, but burnt, brittle and broken which sounds somehow worse. It…

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Value of Life

Too many people play games with the value of human life. They don’t do it bluntly, they make an effort to dress it in pretty clothes and political rhetoric, but the underlying meaning is- my life and my kind has more value in life than this other kind. Some blame it on a god, others…

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Good Catch

So much planning goes into each step of producing a book and tonight we managed to avert a later problem. A huge thanks to Athena, my artist, for working seemlessly with me to visually represent the world of NewEarth in the best light and given the best view. She is not only amazingly talented, but…

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