Apology from a bad blogger

Wow! I need to blog more.  I just noticed that my last entry was from nearly a month ago.  So why DON’T I blog? Excuse #1: It uses the almost the same writing muscles as fiction does, and I need to conserve energy for writing my books.  Because those are what folks...

You’re editing your book AGAIN?!

Non-writers are always shocked when I tell them I’m doing edits yet again (as I am now for The Place I Belong).  No, it’s not that I’m a particularly sloppy writer.  It’s just the process that every book goes—or should go—through.  The more eyes you can get on a...

Treadmill Desk Fame

Who knew my do-it-yourself treadmill desk would make me famous?  Okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but the folks at a great website called Work While Walking saw my June 26th blog post and asked to add it to their “Water Cooler” blog.  I...

Bom dia, Lisboa!

For his 21st birthday trip, Super Son decided he wanted to go “someplace different”, so he chose Portugal.  The tour he liked had two parts: Lisbon and its environs  and the Douro River.  So we packed our bags and took off for the country of the great...