I love this time of year and often think back to my childhood. Christmas was a magical time, even though we didn’t have much money. In late October the Sears Roebuck Toy Catalogue would arrive in the mail and I would spend time going through it, looking for cap pistols, not dolls even though this photo of my sister and …
Fun Facts
Edits are in. Check. Christmas Tree is up. Check. My own porcelain ornaments that I’ve made over the years dabbling around in clay are hung. Check. Air horn is under said Christmas tree. Check. Blog post up…not checked. But since you are reading this, it is now up. 😉 It’s been a busy week trying to finish edits which I …
More Strange Facts
I was rolling right along with my NaNoWrMo count this week when edits for Standoff, the first Natchez Park Rangers book came in! So I abandoned ship. 🙂 I finished said edits Thursday night and will now read through the manuscript once more before turning it in the first of the week. Then I’ll go back to working on the …
Little Known Facts
I’m at Camp NaNoWrMo starting my second week participating in NaNoWrMo (National Novel Writing Month), and I’m on target to hit the 50,000-word goal…if I keep writing 1667 words each day. While you’re supposed to start a new project, I didn’t. I have that February deadline, and I’m using NaNo to push me through the first draft! Actually this won’t …
A Few Dumb Crooks
A week has passed and we discovered we’d been hit by Hurricane Olga three hundred and fifty miles from the coast. Most of the power has been restored to our community and I want to thank all the wonderful workers at ACE Power here in Alcorn County for their hard work! And for the men in my church for calling …
What Do You Do When Your Power Is Out?
You write a blog post! Whew! As I sit here typing on my laptop, I’m thankful the backup battery had a full charge when the power went out about seven hours ago. Before dark fell, power saws droned in the background as people in my small town picked up debris left behind after either straight-line winds or an F1 tornado …
More Insurance Claims
Autumn has finally arrived in North Mississippi! While it’s been close to 75 degrees this weekend, there is still a nip in the air. Unfortunately, we had a really wet summer and then it turned off hot and dry, so our leaves aren’t turning like the usually do. In fact, I’m afraid they’re going to go from green straight to …
Would You Insure This Person?
I am excited to present the new cover for my first Natchez Trace Park Ranger book! I love it! This is going to be a fun series to write! You can even preorder it already even though it doesn’t come out until June 5 oh, Wow, Amazon says it releases May 5!! And now to last week’s Mystery Question: Once …
More Myth Busters
I am excited to report I am back working on the second book in the Natchez National Park Rangers series! I’m writing this the Saturday before the post releases and as of today, I have 7,000 of 90,000 words! At the left is a photo of my office before I started the book…you don’t want to see it now. lol …
Myth Buster
As I write this it is a beautiful September afternoon. My hummingbirds are gone, but the butterflies are still here. They love my lantana. I have a feeling there will be challenges to this week’s answer…so let’s get to last week’s Mystery Question. Below are four statements. ONE IS TRUE. Three are false. Which one is true? Marilyn Monroe had …