I can’t believe it’s already the middle of July! This year seems never ending–and conversely to be evaporating in an endless blur. Remember an eternity ago (ie pre-pandemic) when you made New Year’s Resolutions? How are you coming with yours? One of my resolutions (the only one I actually remember and am still attempting) was […]
Calling Our Readers By Cathy Perkins The days leading up to a new release are always hectic for an author. Add in a nerve-wracking pandemic, wrenching racial and political crises, and life can feel downright overwhelming. Other members of our group have posted thoughtful discussions about this turmoil and I hope you will read through […]
Demanding Perfection By Cathy Perkins Our old house was on a dead-end street, a nice long quiet road with trees and kids and people who mostly observed the speed limit. For the longest time, when I drove in and out of our neighborhood, I’d see a teenaged boy practicing skateboard tricks—or rather the same trick—over […]
Practical Finance By Cathy Perkins We’re all in this pandemic together. That means we all need to look out for each other and give back where we can. When I looked for ways to help others, the obvious kinda stared me in the face. I work in the financial sector and could talk about financial […]
Things Change By Cathy Perkins Hi there from New Mexico, where Covid-19 caught up to us and changed, well, everything. I hope you’re hanging in there as life changes moment by moment. I don’t know about you, but I feel thrown for a loop by a global pandemic that involves a virus which seems to […]
New Year, New Way of Thinking By Cathy Perkins I’ve been thinking about New Year’s Resolutions this week. Making them is ingrained in us, isn’t it? New year, new leaf, fresh start and all that. This year will be different! Everything is new and shiny! Okay, confession: I only made a couple of vague resolutions. […]
Holiday Traditions – Time for a Change By Cathy Perkins Clicking out Heels is also changing. Rather than our group’s question and answer posts for First Wednesday, we’ll focus on a peek behind the scene element. Barbara Plum kicks it off for us in January. Can’t wait to see what she shares! Sometimes change is […]
Happiness…The Pursuit By Cathy Perkins With so much meanness floating around the US right now, I found myself falling into a funk. Rather than wallow in disgust with our elected leaders—and unfortunately, I have to use that term in spite of too many lacking leadership—I decided to focus on the good things in life. At […]
We recently returned from a week at the beach (Pacific NW style – no, it does not include bathing suits!) with our kids and granddaughter. Whew, what a whirlwind! I did, however, edit all 320 pages of my latest novel. One of the many things we discussed last week was the upcoming holidays and the […]
By Cathy Perkins “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell I’ve been trying to finish an amateur sleuth mystery (the next Holly Price story) but another story keeps nagging at me. It’s one I’ve picked up and put down about a dozen times; changed […]