Lest we forget to be ever thankful
Sandwiched between Monster Mash and Santa Baby, is the Forgotten Holiday. Thanksgiving is cursed by having no fun songs or fancy decorations to welcome it. With the Christmas season starting earlier and earlier each year (I heard my first Chrstimas music on Halloween), Thanksgiving is routinely overshadowed by Black Friday sales, which now start Thanksgiving Day, if not the week prior.…
Tag, You're It!
I stumbled upon this questionnaire on a friend's blog and thought it would be a fun way for me to share a little about myself and this writer's life I lead. When did you first start writing? Was being a writer something you always aspired to? Is it cliched to say I've been storytelling as long as I can…
A Good Month
In my opinion, October is the best month of the year. In Southern California, October is the goodbye kiss of summer that leads into the warm embrace of autumn. It is high school football games with friends and family and hearing the marching band practice from the front porch. It is also the wonderful juxtaposition of wearing jeans with sweaters…
#TBT To My First Romance
< p style="text-align: center;">Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. Put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well. ~oOo~ Did you know I wrote my first romance when I was fifteen years old? While going through an old filing cabinet the other day, I discovered some assignments I had written for my…
California Dreamin' Recap
Well. This writer's life just got a whole lot more interesting. It has been almost two weeks since the California Dreamin' Writers Conference in Brea, CA. I have been trying to summarise the experience in more than generalized excitement and one word terms such as "amazing" or "exhilarating". Yes it was that, but it was so much more! Those of you…