In my recent desperation to overcome a serious case of writer’s block, I did a google search on “tips for writing”. Somewhere amidst the flurry of clicks, I ran across this silly page about How to Write Good. While it didn’t automatically cure my writer’s block, it did give me a needed break from the [...]

I wanted to take a quick moment to plug my favorite watercolor artist (who just happens to be my sister-in-law, Aimee.) Her works have recently been posted on Cubegallery.com, which provides emerging artists with the opportunity to sell “fine art reproductions” of their original works. Of course, I’ve seen Aimee’s paintings before and have always [...]

My birthday was a few days ago and I just wanted to say “Thank You” to everyone who sent me birthday emails and e-cards! It was such a blessing to hear from you all! Also, I wanted to thank my sweet husband for making my day so special! He woke me with breakfast in bed [...]

Every once in a while, I stumble across a blog that catches my eye. Some random person in this huge world of ours writes something clever or interesting or profound and I happen to come across it. I often think to myself, “I think I’d like that person if I met them.” It’s actually quite [...]

The use of the term “blog” is a fairly new web phenomenon. But still, I was pretty surprised as I was recently posting a story and doing the final spell check, when the Blogger spell check program didn’t recognize the word “blog”. It suggested that I use “bloc,” “Bloch,” “blows,” or “bloke” instead. Of all [...]