by Nancy Herkness | Jun 24, 2013 | Home, Uncategorized, writing
I did it! I built myself a treadmill desk for less than $200.00! And half of that cost was in the sturdy keyboard tray I decided was necessary for my ergonomic keyboard (since I can’t type decently on anything else anymore). This project started when I read an...
by Nancy Herkness | Jun 7, 2013 | Books, Uncategorized
For a limited time, all three of my Red Car Press books are on sale on Kindle for 99 cents each. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your family! A Bridge to Love is also on sale on Barnes and Noble’s Nook. If you haven’t read one of these...
by Nancy Herkness | Apr 25, 2013 | Dog, Uncategorized
I love this article from the Star-Ledger about bomb sniffing dogs who transform to family pets at night and on weekends. As one expert says: “Your dog’s never going to work harder than for the person that he loves,” said Bryan Szostak, treasurer of the...
by Nancy Herkness | Apr 23, 2013 | Country Roads, Home, Take Me Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia
You may have noticed that my book titles are borrowed from the lyrics of John Denver’s famous song about West Virginia “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” What you may not know—I didn’t!—is that there was originally one more verse that the lyricist Taffy Nivert Danoff and...
by Nancy Herkness | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized, West Virginia
I think my home state has a darned good idea with this! I enjoy science fiction myself (old style Trekkie here!) and think it can be very mind-expanding. Go, mountaineers! A bill calling for science fiction to be made compulsory reading in schools has been proposed...
by Nancy Herkness | Apr 16, 2013 | Adventures, Home, Take Me Home, travel, Uncategorized, West Virginia
I was visiting my folks in my hometown of Lewisburg, West Virginia, when–serendipity!–I discovered they were holding the Seventh Annual Chocolate Festival. Since I am an unrepentant chocoholic, I insisted my husband accompany me to check it out. There was...