Whew! Back to a more normal reading month! Which ought to continue through the Fall! Yay!!!! Where to start? How about historicals, because you know they are my favorite! The Lumber Baron’s Wife by Lynn …
Genre Hopping
Do you read only one genre? Is it this or that—but never both? How about music? Is the soundtrack of your life all from one type of music or does it fluctuate based on mood and situation? I confess, I’m a genre …
A Change–and a Question
Being an indie author means that selling books is not as straightforward as with a publishing house. Many times, indie authors experiment with different options. A couple of years ago, I did just that, making my ebooks …
Philadelphia and Boston
To celebrate the 250th year of our country, Jeff’s organization hosted a historical tour of Philadelphia and Boston over the 4th of July. It was a whirlwind trip with only two full days in each city, but it was fun to be in …
Happy birthday, America!
I remember celebrating America’s 200th birthday in 1976. The spring leading up to that July, I was in the 3rd grade. We talked a lot about America’s Bicentennial Birthday in our class because our teacher that year was Mrs. …
June Reads
I decided to post this a few days early because I will not get to finish another book before Tuesday. June has been another month with curtailed reading time. Ugh. And now my TBR pile (physical, Kindle, audio) is so large …
My Travel Essentials
If you’ve been around here a bit, you know my husband and I travel a lot. It’s mostly work trips, though we do sometimes go just to visit family. Or we take our kids and grandkids somewhere so we can get uninterrupted time …
The smallest member
A week ago, I fractured my pinky toe. You know the one, that smallest member of our outward body. How did I do it? I was hurrying across my bedroom, skirted the edge of my bed too closely, and caught the leg of the …
Get to know me
Over on Inspired by Life . . . and Fiction, we are celebrating a new look with a series of "get to know us" posts. Tamera Alexander created this wonderful graphic with the questions, so I thought I'd use it, too! …
May Reads
Travel months are usually good reading months for me. Not this time! Between a jam-packed, eleven-day Europe trip and a ten-day trip to visit family, my reading time significantly diminished! (Although plane rides …