When Cats Get Spoiled – an essay

Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I sometimes write essays about my cats or other animals. It’s a writing exercise and a way to blog about them and still sort of link it to writing… So here is today’s installment: When Cats Get...

When Cats Get Spoiled- an essay

Looking back through history, it’s easy to see why people kept cats. It wasn’t because they come when you call them, sit in your lap when you need comfort, or eat leftover food like dogs or husbands do. Nope. It was because they caught mice. People kept...

Forty Things I’m Grateful For

Today is author Sarah Dessen’s 38th birthday and on her blog she’s listing thirty-eight things she’s grateful for. At first I was kind of bummed that I hadn’t thought to do that on my birthday last April and then I decided, why not do it now?...

Lucky me!

Blessings & Gratitude! Forty things I’m grateful for: 1. My husband 2. My parents 3. My kitties 4. Applewood smoked cheddar cheese from England being available at my tiny village grocery store 5. My lovely office 6. Deer in the yard 7. Tea with milk (and how...

Elevators

It’s quite possible that I’ve gone nuts, but what the heck? Here goes nothing. Those of you who read my blog or are SCBWI members, know that over the last two years, I have studied query writing pretty intensely and when I was querying for agents, I had a...