2013-02-22 14:48
Health is not valued until sickness comes. ~ Thomas FullerConfession: I make a horrible sick person. Horrible. It’s true. Most things I can suck up and just deal with, but being sick h… Read More
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2013-02-03 17:15
"Laziness will cause you pain." ~ Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-DefenseWe’re having a snow day on a Sunday, which really isn’t convenient at all… Read More
2013-01-12 15:06
First book on deck for 2013."Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." ~ Jessamyn WestThis year I am determined to read 2 books per month for a total of 24 books in 2013. Now, I know t… Read More
2013-01-05 14:17
“When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.”~ From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk I feel like the walkin… Read More
2012-12-30 00:31
Cedar checking out the holiday action.Okay - it's not quite a brand new year, but since I have decided to resurrect this blog and try to post more regularly, I figure the weekend is the best… Read More
2012-08-13 15:26
My poor, poor neglected blog. I know, I know. I kept promising to set up a regular schedule for this and then time just slipped through my fingertips and before I knew it, months had passed… Read More
2012-03-05 14:27
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ~ Orison MardenBut I can explain. Really. I've spent the past few months with my nose to the grin… Read More
2011-12-13 13:46
I will admit, I am a sucker for a good fairy tale and Snow White and the Huntsman starring Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth looks awesome. The effects in the trailer were… Read More
2011-12-06 20:10
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ~Logan Pearsall SmithSo it turns out that for every pound of lean muscl… Read More
2011-11-28 14:19
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~A.A. Milne I have to go to the gym after work and get my annual fitness assessment done. This consists of 90 minutes of being w… Read More
2011-11-07 11:12
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~ John ArchibaldWheeler, The American Journal of Physics, 1978 I would totally disagree with Mr. Wheeler on that point. I'm pretty s… Read More
2011-10-20 10:20
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threadswhich sew people together through the years. ~ Simone Signoret What can I say...it was a really busy fall sea… Read More
2011-08-29 18:40
I have been a very, very bad blogger this summer. I'd like to blame it on the lovely weather, but unfortunately we haven't really had any, so...I have had my nose to the grindstone however a… Read More
2011-07-22 15:50
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. ~ Earl WilsonBy this time next week, I will be on vacation. I cannot tell you how much I have been waiting f… Read More
2011-07-06 14:17
“An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.” ~ Augustine Birre… Read More
2011-06-21 14:31
"I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain." ~… Read More
2011-06-01 14:06
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul." ~ Gaston BachelardI woke up to the sound of birds chirping this morning. Not the angry… Read More
2011-04-25 11:49
To cap off my one week release anniversary, I am giving away a copy of The Outlaw Bride. Just pop over to my Facebook page (link on sidebar) and leave a comment to enter yourself in the draw… Read More
2011-04-19 09:45
Normally, I'm opposed to the idea of cloning. The idea that you can take someone's DNA and somehow recreate them never sat right with me. Maybe physically you could have a life-like replica… Read More
2011-04-16 12:06
I've been busy writing up a storm, preparing for the looming book release of THE OUTLAW BRIDE on April 18th (ack! only a few days away!). A lot of the prep has been writing up blurbage for a… Read More
2011-03-24 12:14
I'm ranting about plastic surgery over at The PopCultureDivas today. Come join the party! Read More
2011-03-14 10:23
"The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it." ~ John LubbockIt’s difficult to come up with a scintillating blog entry when you’ve only slept a… Read More
2011-03-07 15:09
"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." ~ Steve PrefontaineThis one I blame my sister-in-law for. She started running last year and we batt… Read More
2011-02-25 16:12
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material." ~… Read More
2011-02-21 11:13
"Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along." ~ Hugh AllenI’m getting excited about New York in June. I know I have… Read More
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