When we moved into our house 14 years ago, the neighbor came over just before Halloween and broke it to us gently that most likely our house would be covered in TP during the night. The neighborhood kids liked to "welcome" the newcomers with a little extra Halloween...
. . . until you turned to highway robbery. Now let me say flat out, I have always loved going to the movies. To me it is the biggest treat to watch a film on a huge screen, with a big bag of popcorn to munch on, and a soda. But I have to say that my trip to the cinema...
I have for years loved entering contests. And mostly because I tend to get lucky. Oh, I don't win everything I enter, but I think I have a pretty good rate at scoring some great prizes. My best friend Kit will not enter a contest with me because she says that...
I recently got a copy of Naughty Paris, A Lady's Guide to the Sexy City by Heather Stimmler-Hall, and had a great time, if only from the comfort of my couch, designing the perfect naughty visit to Paris. Now this is not Rick Steves travel, or the kind of trip you'd...
Thanks to the internet, I've discovered that I get around. Well, not me exactly, which would be sort of fun for a 40-something stay-at-home mom with the social life of an earthworm in the Mojave, but my virtual me. That Elizabeth Boyle entity, who in the last month...
So I had an interesting evening the other night. I went to the third annual (at least I think this is the third year) of the Librarian Meet & Greet which is in conjunction with the Emerald City Writer's Conference. Don't ask me how the conference was, as I didn't...
