Labor Day is here, and I’m laboring. All good stuff though. I finished my final line edits (FLEs) for my debut Harlequin Presents today. It was a good thing to revisit this story, because I always have these big doubts. But I got weepy at the ending which I hadn’t expected to do. Hope the [...]

I have five rooms that need painting inside, and I have the paint on hand for two of them. So why haven’t I jumped in and got at least one job done? Hmm, well, writing deadlines for one. Full time day job for another. I swear I don’t know where the summer went. I swear. [...]

I have a confession to make. I’m addicted to jalepena peppers. There are just a few meals that won’t benefit from having a pepper (or two) as a condiment. I’d enjoyed Santa Fe Grande peppers for years, but the high salt was beginning to bother me. Not in a raise in blood pressure, but retaining [...]

Our office installed a coffee machine in the waiting room this week. I was not for this idea initially, because I’ve had some really bad coffee from these machines before, as well as bad experiences. Anyone remember the old type machines that would drop the cup, then the coffee would dribble into it? Anyone remember [...]

I’ve been a bad dog mom regarding Samson’s training. If I knew do-diddlly-squat about training a dog it wouldn’t be a bad thing. But I know. I went through an extensive dog training class with Bear, my keeshond that I had for 14 years and lost about 2 years ago. She was smart, and trained [...]