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Just For Fun Friday  02/14/2014

Just For Fun Friday 02/14/2014

Baby, it’s COLD outside! I’ve said before I’m an info-junkie.  I am fascinated by trivial details.  As a writer, it’s a bonus – finding snippets of information to store away for use in a story somewhere. Given the weather in the past month, this bit caught my eye as I was browsing through  a 1977 […]

Retreats - Time to Write

Retreats – Time to Write

  Do you sometimes find that time to write is in short supply? Since I live in the country with only dogs and cats to keep me company, you’d think all I need to do to find solitary writing time (away from my day job) is go home and not talk to anyone for a week. That doesn’t work […]

Just For Fun Friday 02/07/2014

Just For Fun Friday 02/07/2014

Blog, Blog, Blog In my very first post, “never once considering…” I blogged about deciding to create a blog. I talked about checking out bloggers on blogging and getting advice from others.  Well, I think I over-did it! Every time I found a site with good information, I bookmarked it and subscribed. If I found […]

Insights From a Flea-Market Find

Insights From a Flea-Market Find

Do you like flea markets? Saturdays are often spent with my daughter, exploring them. It’s our ‘getting away from it all’ hobby. I look for frames (mirrors, art-work, photo frames, etc.) and spend lots of time sorting through books. And I browse. Some things just look interesting, or bring back a childhood memory (I had […]

Just For Fun Friday 01/31/2014

Just For Fun Friday 01/31/2014

Who writes this stuff? On Facebook and in e-mails we are inundated with those illustrated posts that originated with posters, post-cards, greeting cards, and other things – often with poignant, pithy, or pertinent quotations on them.   I love those things! But – who writes this stuff?  Often the quotations are from books, the bible, or […]