Thursday Humor – Sweet and Innocent? Ha!

Don’t let the photo of our kitty, Miss Sophie, fool you. She is one tricky cat and she likes to amuse herself at our expense. Miss Sophie suffers from seizures (not the funny part of this story) and so earlier this year, the vet put her on phenobarbital, which...

My Writing/Your Writing – Stop! That’s junk!

On Tuesday I wrote 13 new pages. Now if you’re a reader and not a writer, you might think, “Yeah, so what?” but if you write, you know that that’s a phenomenal writing day for most writers. Yesterday, I wrote nothing. What happened? Did I use...

Teen Topic Tuesday – Will this be you?

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. I stole this statistic from Eileen Cook’s website. Appalling, isn’t it? Not the stealing, the statistic. It gets worse! Drop by and see her post on the Reading Revolution...

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Here’s what’s on offer: BETSY AND TACY GO OVER THE BIG HILL – by Maud Hart Lovelace THE MIDWIFE’S APPRENTICE – by Karen Cushman (MG) JACOB HAVE I LOVED – by Katherine Patterson (it’s an old beat-up copy, but what the heck? It’s...

Listening…

Nothing much to write as I’ve just been reading HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS and listening to HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN on CD while I work out and clean and sit on the porch gazing a the lake. Read anything good?