I work for a community college, and in higher academia, we are blessed with having a winter break that spans a little over a month. My years have taught me that I have to be careful with this time, because …
Category: Reading
Do You Have to Read to Be a Great Writer?
This has come up often in my various online writing groups: There’s a writer, new to the world of compiling stories in a text based format. Like me, they want to be the next Ms. J.K. Rowling… They have a …
Tea Time
When I was growing up, my mom used to take me to a British tea shoppe forty minutes away from our home. I’m guessing it was her way of trying to raise me with some sense of her culture, but …
On loan from the Scriptorium
Legend tells of a heavenly chain of bookstores in the far off shores of Niantic where there are thousands of books available for a low fee. They have cats, they have playgrounds, they even offer snacks and coffee. It sounds …
In Memory of William Goldman
I am a child of The Princess Bride movie. The witty banter, the belief in true love… the passion for adventure. It’s crazy that my literary week has been consumed with William Goldman only to hear that he passed away. …
National Novel Writing Month TO THE EXTREME!
November is National Novel Writing Month, and if you don’t think that I am the kind of person to take that seriously, then by golly you know nothing about me, for I have taken National Novel Writing Month TO THE EXTREME! …
NaNoWriMo and Caffeinated Rebellious Adolescents
My son’s school is expanding, which kind of sucks because my property taxes went up, but it’s exciting because it looks like my kids now go to the school of the FUTURE. Seriously, I think they modeled the look of …
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You Are Weird, but That’s Why We Love You.
I would like to personally thank Felicia Day for her memoir, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). I know her from her internet show, The Guild, but my mom, and most everyone else, know her as Charlie from Supernatural. …
The Independent Queens of Twitter
One of the final classes I that I had taken at Southern New Hampshire University was a Social Medial platform building course for aspiring authors. I learned a lot, and it was that class that birthed this site! The course …
Bad Navy Guys and Awesomely Feral Navy Kids
Over a month ago, the kids and I went to this amazing summer fest that they have on the subbase. They had paintball- which got super heated because you had grown men serving in the military either pairing up with …
