by Maria Geraci A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Everyone recognizes Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet. And in theory, I have to agree with the Bard. What truly matters is what something is, not what it’s called. The fact that we’ve been programmed to think of a rose as […]
by Bethany Maines I just read a blog about a woman who bought her husband a giant 5’ chicken because they got into an argument about the need for more bath towels. It was done with a great deal of love, humor and antagonism – like a good marriage. Or at least like my marriage. […]
by: Joelle Charbonneau Let the trumpets and cymbals sound. Tell the band to strike up a tune because we are having a party. I am celebrating the completion of my new novel. Hurray! And at the end of this post I plan on giving something away to complete the celebration. So stay tuned. Writing this […]
Welcome to July’s edition of Lori’s Book Sense. I hope you like the hot titles I’ve got for you this month. Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens ~ All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not […]
by Colleen Collins & Shaun Kaufman We are private investigators who specialize in legal investigations, and we also take the occasional infidelity case. Because one of the Stiletto Gang writers asked us to write about tracking down cheating spouses, we’ll discuss some facets of this work, starting with how private investigators are part therapists and […]
by Maria Geraci I can’t remember the first time I heard the term “life coach.” I just know that like lots of other trendy, new wave sort of 21st century adages (like Twitter, Skype, etc…) the term just sort of crept up on me. And then I began to see it everywhere, most notably in […]
My kids say I’m paranoid. They also say that I’m overprotective. Yes, and definitely yes. Being a parent is to know fear as you have never known it before. Maybe I’m a little overly dramatic (ok, I am), but to wait for your teenaged daughter to come back from a run that inexplicably goes past […]
I’ve been around a long time and have had many jobs–none that I hated, but all that have had a tidbit or a person who I’ve been able to use in a book. Of course my first paid jobs were babysitting, which I began at the age of 10. Frankly, I wasn’t much good at […]
Some enchanted evening You may see a stranger, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room And somehow you know, You know even then That somewhere you’ll see her Again and again. My vacation was a roaring success. Highlights included a weekend in Napa (didn’t I say that with élan?); 24-hours in Vegas where […]
by Susan McBride We didn’t have our air conditioner checked before the summer, and it’s been a hot one. So the thing has been running overtime (and, knock on wood, doing just fine). But I’ve been busy with deadlines so I put it off and put it off…until the Air Comfort people had called me twice to remind me that, […]