Please query me if you would like to request a book review. Long before the Internet and Amazon ratings, I was a professional book and theatre reviewer for newspapers and magazines, so I follow those journalism standards of not always reviewing every book I receive, as well as giving an honest review, not just an […]
Please welcome Todd M. Thiede as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. Todd has written several mystery novels that feature Detective Max Larkin, and they have all been well-received by critics and readers. I’m reading Miss Me? now, and so far it’s a good read.I just made some chocolate chip cookies, so grab one to go with your
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Hop, Skip, Jump Marney K. MakridakisFile Size: 36452 KBPrint Length: 296 pagesPublisher: New World Library (October 27, 2014)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00OMAMRQ4 Hop, Skip, Jump: 75 Ways to Playfully Manifest a Meaningful Life is a delightful new book from Marney K. Makridakis. The book invites us to look at the work we
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Well, we got past the turkey and the pumpkin pie. Those who shopped on Black Friday seemed to fare well. I didn’t hear any reports of mayhem, which is the first time that Saturday’s news casts didn’t lead with a report of injuries at a mall. Shopping online has more appeal to me, other than
It’s going to be a busy week heading toward Thanksgiving and I have a jillion things to do today, so I thought I would have a guest instead of my usual Monday offering. I am so thankful for the writers who share their work with us, and one of them, Roy Faubion, occasionally sends me
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Please welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s guest. He has a cute story that tells us how not to plan a Thanksgiving dinner. Since it is never too soon to have some pumpkin pie – and mine are the best, just ask any of my kids – we can all have a slice to go
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I’m reading Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, and it is a wonderful story. Vivian, now 81 years old, was an orphan in the late 20s and early 30s and part of the story is set back then, chronicling her experiences after she is taken by Child Services from New York to Minnesota to find
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Yesterday was the official launch party for the new International Anthology, Short and Happy (Or Not), that contains my short story To Love Again. The book was just released this week on Amazon and already has 9 reviews. One reviewer wrote: “A sampling in all the right ways. Overall one of my favorite reads in
Obviously this is not my usual Friday fare, and before we go any further with this, I want to invite you to hop over to Merrie’s Inspired Writers blog and see the terrific interview she did with me. You can find out about my latest work in progress and who I have a crush on.
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If I don’t hurry up and get this posted, it will soon become Monday Afternoon Musings. I got a slow start to my morning due to some thunderstorms that blew in about four o’clock. It was a loud, violent storm with lightening that slashed the darkness. For some reason, as I lay awake for about
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