Giving Thanks

It’s Thanksgiving and I have a lot to be thankful for. Three healthy children after a doctor told me I shouldn’t try to have more children. This was after Mirinda died and he rightfully predicted I would have trouble carrying another child. I wanted six children and had four. I’ve lived to see three of…

The Wave

I’m sitting here with a bag of frozen chocolate chips under my foot. It would be frozen veggies, but I, in my fervor to clean out the freezer didn’t remember that frozen veggies make excellent ice packs. So, why do I need an ice pack at all, be it veggies or chocolate chips or ever…

The Surrender

The Surrender

When the Civil War broke out, Robert E. Lee was in Texas. He received the news and spent the night pacing his room in the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, torn about what he should do. He was against slavery. He’d written editorial letters in newspapers with his views about why it was wrong…

I’m Going To Write A Book

I’m Going To Write A Book

Yes, I’ve been missing in action and we won’t go into all the reasons. Partially, the migraines and ensuing other problems are getting worse. Partially, I’m still revising and I went to the beginning to make some more changes. Partially, I got very irritated when the computer crashed and I lost my maps I had…

#WDC11 Through Tweets

I’ve been watching the Writer’s Digest 2011 conference tweets. Some have been extremely helpful. I’m going to post a few of the comments that came through the twitter stream. Meredtih Barnes, @Mer_Barnes on twitter, was very busy yesterday, so I’ll post quite a few of her “tweets.” Someone apparently asked in a panel if they…