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New and Improved

I’m typing this post from the keyboard of a new laptop. My imagination wanted to create an entire scene there where I was sitting in a darkened room in something like the Bat cave. The walls go straight up for thirty or forty feet, opening

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Fiction or Real Life?

Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between what is real and fiction in the stories I tell. Now, you hope that if I’m telling a story about my past, it’s real … but who knows, my mind has probably exaggerated some parts of the story for

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Star Wars – An Addiction

I *might* have just pre-ordered the Star Wars Digital Movie Collection on Amazon. Seriously, folks, there was no good reason for this movie series to have grabbed hold of my imagination the way that it has. I gladly consider myself a Trekkie, I love Babylon 5,

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Friendship & Why Women Rock

An amazing blog post crossed my path the other day and after I stopped being emotional, I knew I had to share it with all of you. When I first started writing the Bellingwood series, I encountered quite a few critics who insisted that people

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Sunday Afternoon Fun

I’ve been whining a lot about needing to clean … I still am. There are too many other things that I want to do instead. However, this morning I got a bit of a start on cleaning this place after a long winter. Enough to

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Anticipation

One of my childhood memories is putting seeds in styrofoam cups and setting them in the windowsill. I know people do this as all the time now – I’m not much of a gardener these days. So, for this exercise, I’m going back a few

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Cleaning? Or Writing … Easy Choice.

I should be cleaning today. No, you don’t need to tell me I deserve a day off, because that’s not really true. I should be cleaning today. It’s one of those things I can find a million excuses to avoid. When I’m finishing a book,

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To Infinity … and Beyond?

Okay, maybe not as far as infinity, but at least for the foreseeable future, Bellingwood stories will continue to be told. My story-arc is a lifetime … not an event. Polly started as a 32 year old woman. She’s only begun to live her adult

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April 1 in Bellingwood

I woke this morning to wonderful and creative online April Fool’s Day jokes. I’m not someone who makes those happen. I’m much more apt to be the recipient. I’m really good at being pranked. I laugh like a fiend and love the joke. As I

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