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Five Things for Friday

Welcome to Friday, and Good Friday as well, if you celebrate Easter. Have a blessed weekend and may all your eggs be chocolate. In the meantime, here a Five Things to start off your weekend with a smile and a bit of joy. One Have you seen these Miniature Book Nooks? I...

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Five Things For Friday + A Live Event Today

So, I've been absent for a bit. From my heart, I've missed all of you. First it was the holidays, and then it was January. And then I had foot surgery. And now, I am finally walking again — hurrah!! — and ready to get back to sending out newsletters once more. And...

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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

So not the best week, right? Loss seems to be the only word to describe it. My dear friend, Diane, who I had written about before, took a turn for the worse and passed quickly. The words my friends and I keep sharing —"We thought we had more time." — are all we seem...

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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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