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Five Things for Friday

It's inevitable, but I am going to repeat myself. I've tried hard not to. I even maintain a list—but the list only works if you update it, which I did last week and discovered I have repeated myself. The Expanse! The Vanished Days! With over 220 Things and counting,...

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Five Things for Friday

Welcome to Friday. Hope your week has been a calm spot in all the currents of our world. My mother is in lockdown at her assisted living (again) and Thanksgiving is off the table. Well, it will be on the table, just not the table with all the leaves and the card...

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Five Things for Friday

Yikes! I've been "gone" for the last two weeks "at" conferences. All at home and on Zoom, as one does these days, but that doesn't mean I had a minute to spare. Because, as every woman juggling home, family and life right now knows, being home just complicates it all....

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Five Things for Friday

I am in a mad dash currently. I am speaking at two writers conferences in the next two weeks, so I am up to my neck in preparing workshops, figuring out how to present them online, and learning all the bells and whistles of Zoom. As. We. All. Are. So I shall just get...

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Five Things for Friday

As I look out the window at nothing but smoke, my heart goes out to everyone affected by the wildfires on the West Coast. Prayers going out for rain and relief. That, and four day weeks throw me. What? It's Friday already? Hence, this is a little late this morning. So...

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Five Things for Friday

Here we go again! Another week and another Friday. And I am in a whirlwind. I start off on a big adventure tomorrow—I'm helping my college son move back to Chicago. We will be driving from Seattle to Chicago, via Butte, Montana, Casper, Wyoming, and Lincoln, Nebraska,...

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