Category Archives: My Thoughts

I have an important confession to make. For years, I’ve had a favorite commercial. It was the Dairy Queen “Baby Bjorn” commercial, in which a father takes a hard kick to the stones and a headbutt because he won’t share his cheesecake blizzard with … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, I had a discussion with my local authors group, Writers and Scribblers, about writing goals. I had come across this great article titled 20 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer by Nina Amir, so I … Continue reading →

Oh man, this past week has flown by in a crazy haze of editing Mark of the Pterren for my Round Two beta-readers — but I started this blog post last weekend, and decided I should *probably* finish it. Because goals … Continue reading →

I finally — finally! — finished Code Name Verity last night.             This was a book club read with one of my friends. We have a book club of two people, and it is awesome. We … Continue reading →

In the summer of 2014, I read the novel Ethan Frome (published in 1911) aloud to my husband, and discovered the total badassery that is Edith Wharton.           Yeah, I still love looking at this picture of … Continue reading →

Okay, on other author blogs I read (and love) the authors often post their book reviews on their blog page as well as on Goodreads. So here is me trying to adopt that practice — Because right after I made … Continue reading →

Roxane Gay’s collection of essays on “feminism, race, gender, sexuality, and their intersections with popular culture,” Bad Feminist, came out in August 2014, and I’ve been dying to read it.                 I bought … Continue reading →

Today is December 26th, the day after Christmas — and I hope every Christian and Christmas-celebrating person reading this post had a wonderful holiday!       I spent Christmas Eve day with my family in Silverton, Colorado, and then Christmas … Continue reading →

It’s getting so close to Christmas now and the days are pretty much madcap craziness. On top of trips to the Post Office and all kinds of shopping and gift-wrapping, I’ve had birthday parties, graduation parties, book club parties, and … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year! Assessment! List-making! Summing up the last twelve glorious months of reading time! So I can share the Ten Best Books I read in 2014!! Of course, I read a lot of great books this year, and … Continue reading →