Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I didn’t make anyone cry. Well, not that I saw anyway. Today was the day of the conference. We didn’t start until 10am–it’s kind of nice to start later and have time to get ready, without getting up at the crack of dawn! I did an hour of editor appointments followed by an hour of [...]

You have a nice sign in the bathroom that talks about the millions of gallons of water used every day to wash towels used only once. The instructions say a towel hanging on the rack mean that I will use it again. Of course, being a (mostly) good person, doing my part for the environment, [...]

Who is so smart and witty and interesting to talk to, that you want to run out and grab their backlist. Of course, if you’re already a fan of their books, even better, since you’ve already read and/or own their backlist. I had no idea that I was going to have a chance tonight to [...]

Is not being lonely. I’m traveling today. I left home this morning and spent the day traveling to Florida. I got to my hotel around 6pm and after getting settled, headed down to the hotel restaurant for dinner–airport fast food just doesn’t do it for me so I was more than ready! It was nice, [...]

I almost didn’t make it by the deadline! I’m getting ready to leave for another work trip (to Florida, just for the weekend) so this is going to be a little more brief, but I didn’t want to miss participating in TBR Day. It’s actually been a great thing for me, because it’s motivated me [...]

How often do you hear that old standby “show don’t tell”? Probably way too often. How often has someone been able to explain to you what it means, in a way that makes sense to you? Probably not often. Ilona Andrews has a post up about “show don’t tell” that I think provides some solid [...]

It’s come to my attention that Josh and I are going to have to make up some details of our dating life.** How did we meet? In a bar. What’s our engagement story? I got pregnant. What was your wedding like? Me, eight months pregnant, him, and the justice of the peace at the courthouse [...]

“Mommy, is it Sunday?” “Mmmhhmmm.” “But I don’t WANT it to be Sunday. I want it to be FRIIIIDAAAYYY.” (make sure you insert the three-year-old whiny inflection on that as you read).

First the truck race last night, now the All Star race tonight. What’s that word? Oh right. Karma. Heh.

My friend Erin issued a blog challenge to our playgroup: show current pictures of your house (since we’ve all been busy planting). Erin, this is for you. **special thanks to my brother-in-law, who works for Pepsi and knows I’m a big Dale Jr. fan, for sending me some promo stuff–Amp, which is a product of [...]