Tag: blessings

  • Good Tidings

    Good Tidings

    I read, signed, and sent my contract for Lily White in Detroit to my publisher yesterday. Yay! Now I must knuckle down and do some work on the ending as I promised my editor I would. Maybe I didn’t mention that before…she loved my story, yes, but the ending fell a little flat for her.…

  • Blessings and Curses

    Blessings and Curses

    This time last year my life seemed both blessed and cursed. On the blessed side, I welcomed a new grandson and, then, several months later, another. Two grandsons in less than a year. Who could be more blessed? Well, and here’s where the cursed part starts, they lived all the way on the other side…

  • Blue Morning

    I had such a fun weekend–it feels churlish to complain just because it’s over. Al and I spent the entire weekend together, watching the rain pour down on Friday while eating take out pizza from our favorite place, going to the movies and out to dinner Saturday, puttering around the house and eating super-healthy Sunday. Hmmm. Not sure…

  • Blessings

    Yesterday I revised the review and sent it in (early!) and this morning I looked at the essay I’m working on for Good Housekeeping’s Blessings column. I had only written a first draft, and I knew it needed a couple hundred words plus a whole lotta polish. It’s still not there, but I’ve gotten into a…

  • My Beautiful New Old Blog

    Love this new space, especially the cherry blossoms! Thank you, Mike, for the design, the hard work, the updated bio, and incorporating my “Garage Band” interviews here on my beautiful new old blog. This morning, I finished a draft of #10. Also drafted a review, for a grand total of about 800 fresh words. #10 is…