Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

This past weekend I asked Twitter for some good summer ideas for using the chicken breast in my fridge. I ended up doing the Key West chicken and Cilantro Lime rice I blogged about here, but I got such good ideas, I wanted to share them for those of you searching for summer cooking ideas! [...]

This afternoon on Twitter I asked: What’s your favorite book that prominently features a dragon. Either as a shifter, character, etc. Keyword: prominent I have absolutely no reason for asking other than general curiousity. I was browsing Amazon (avoiding cleaning my closet, like I’m supposed to be doing on Vacation Day Two) and something caught [...]

I have so much love for this picture Brianna made me for an early Mother’s Day using some heart sticky notes I gave her (I got them in a goody bag from a conference last weekend!). She made every one of our family members in the house (including animals) their own face and labeled them. [...]

Yesterday I posted briefly about how awkward it can feel to be at a conference, as an editor, and not know anyone. In the comments, Keira asked: I always feel like editors and agents get mobbed so much (no wonder they don’t wear their nametags) that they’d be happy to have a quiet drink without [...]

I’m just trying out posting pictures direct from my iPhone!

A few years ago…okay 6 years ago, when Brianna was just a baby, only 4 months old, we had something happen that’s horrible at any time but I think especially horrible when you’re a new parent with a new baby: we had a fatal computer crash. That was at a time when I kind of [...]

I’ve been blogging a bit more the past few weeks. I’d like to say it’s going to be like this around here again from now on but truthfully the reason is simple: I had a lot of time off over the holidays and it’s a LOT easier for me to blog when I’m not working. [...]

I’m not adverse to having a nightly drink, whether it’s a glass of wine, a beer or a martini. I’m a pretty diverse drinker (something to be proud of?) and like a wide variety of things. But in the winter, I start to crave more cold-weather appropriate drinks. Somehow a fruity martini just doesn’t have [...]

You quickly learn that you’d better learn to love meetings or you’re going to hate your job. I’m fortunate to work from home, so my participation in meetings I might otherwise have to attend is limited or not required, but I still have a lovely routine schedule of phone meetings (anyone who knows me will [...]

My friend E. is the mom of 2 toddlers. She’s also pregnant w/her third child and has just been put on bedrest. Yikes! Thankfully, her husband works from home so he can help out, but the biggest challenge is meal ideas. Here’s what she has to say: I am drawing a blank when it comes [...]