“I Am Not My Hair” I thought it might be fun to make this post a little lighthearted, as heavy-hearted as many of us are probably feeling after yesterday’s tragic anniversary. I awoke yesterday morning and turned on “Good Morning, America,” as I always do and found myself humming along to India.Arie’s song, “I Am Not […]
We have been blessed by four new great-grandchildren in the last four years. Jaslyn who is now 4 (she’s named after her daddy, Jason) Justice, Jaslyn’s baby brother These two charmers belong to granddaughter, Merenda, and I don’t get to see them often enough. Aleena was just born a week and a half ago, nearly […]
I’m always on the lookout in the news for interesting bits for our next novel. This week lots of strange stuff showed up on my radar – most of it would be unbelievable in a work of fiction. Still maybe we’ll find some way to use it. In Tulsa, OK – woman survives being […]
By Laura Spinella Best Graphic Available Under Pressure I’ve never been a fan of the phrase, “book pregnant.” Maybe that’s because I wasn’t particularly good at “real pregnant.” Years removed and my memories still rouse a hazy sea of green swells, my stomach rolling on the thought, not to mention the cumulative 27 months of […]
or I Know, I Can’t Believe We’re Still Talking About It Either by Bethany Maines A friend of mine and I were comparing notes on the Twilight series, which she loved and I mildly enjoyed enough to make it through the first book and then wikipedia the plots of the others so I could find […]
by: Joelle Charbonneau Today the sun rose in the east. It will set in the west. Across the world people will get out of bed, eat breakfast, go to work, to school, to stores and to hundreds of other destinations. Rain or shine, today is a just a normal day. And yet it isn’t. Eleven […]
By Evelyn David A few weeks ago I cooked a brisket, which I sliced and then froze. It was my opening salvo to get ready for the holidays which begin next Sunday evening with the celebration of Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. It’s not exactly like December 31. No Waterford crystal ball drop, no […]
Tried and True Friends By Laura Bradford Even as a little girl, I could lose myself in the pages of a book for hours. I’d hole up at the desk in my bedroom and read until I was forced to stop for something like food or sleep. When I was super little, it was books like […]
by Douglas Corleone Rather than trek from city to city, many authors today are touring from home in their underwear. The virtual tour continues to rise in popularity, and there is no shortage of venues in the blogosphere to visit. No air travel, no road trips, no filling the tank at four bucks a gallon […]
This is Ashley who attends the meetings with her mom and grandma–but spends most of her time reading. She’s been coming to the SinC meetings since she was a little girl and often helps out. (She’s much younger and prettier than the rest of us.) I’m one of the founding members of the San Joaquin […]