Organzing my Year Part 3: Paper Trails

Part of organizing your life is learning exactly what works for you. By trial and error and much money spent on shiny new organizers, I’ve learned that I’m not an organizer kind of girl. I like the idea of them, but the practice always drops off around the middle of...

Organzing my Year Part 1-Craft with a Capital C

Like gazillions of people around the globe I want to start 2015 off better. Better than I was before. Better… stronger… faster… Like the six million dollar writer. Huh. I wish. Though resolutions are often sneered at, Chuck Wendig, writer extraordinaire, puts it...

Craziness, Juggling and a Blanket Apology

Velvet Undercover is almost in the books so to speak and I have thrown my energies behind Fall River, my latest adult novel. I’m hoping to have that finished by mid December so my agent and I can revise it and get it out to editors come January. Then I’ll...

Time Management

I’m doing a time tracking exercise for my college course. What I’ve discovered: Time management isn’t an issue because I aint got no time to manage. Take away my hour of collapse time with wine and a book or TV at the end of the day and I’m...

Word of the Day: Keepsake

Keepsake: Something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event I have a hope chest full of keepsakes of both my own childhood and my children’s. My father made me the chest when I was a teen and it is one of my most treasured belongings, along...