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January 1, 2025
Join us for our Cozy Crafternoons on zoom!
A quick reminder for January plans for this blog and Erin with Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs. Erin and I are planning some Cozy Crafternoons on Zoom in January and February to try to beat those winter blahs that happen after Christmas. The plans for now are two a month. We will just all meet …
December 31, 2024
Top Ten Tuesday: My Top Reads of 2024
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is “Best Books I Read in 2024” I have a list of 16 books I enjoyed from my 2024 list, but I whittled them down to ten for today. I’m going to leave my favorite read from the year at number 10. …
December 29, 2024
Sunday Chat: A nice, calm Christmas, getting ready for the first book of 2025, and join us for a cozy crafternoon
Welcome to my Sunday Chat where I ramble about what’s been going on in my world, what the rest of the family and I have been reading, watching, listening to, and what I’ve been writing. This week I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn at The Book Date. “Let’s just use paper plates …
December 25, 2024
Remembering Grandma and my one childhood Christmas that was white
I was listening to Michael Bublé singing White Christmas the other day and thinking about how when I was growing up we almost never had a white Christmas because every year we drove from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to visit with my mom‘s family. The part of North Carolina they lived in — closer to …
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Remembering Grandma and the one childhood Christmas that was a white Christmas
I was listening to Michael Bublé singing White Christmas the other day and thinking about how when I was growing up we almost never had a white Christmas because every year we drove from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to visit with my mom‘s family. The part of North Carolina they lived in — closer to …
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December 23, 2024
Some highlights from our Comfy, Cozy Christmas Link Up!
Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs) and I have been thrilled to see all the amazing posts being linked in our Comfy, Cozy Christmas link up for 2024!! I wanted to highlight a few of those posts today and hope to highlight some more after Christmas. I hope you will take the time to check …
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December 21, 2024
Sunday Chat: Merry Christmas, Christmas movies, and looks like we will have a white Christmas afterall
Welcome to my Sunday Chat where I ramble about what’s been going on in my world, what the rest of the family and I have been reading, watching, listening to, and what I’ve been writing. As always, I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn at The Book Date. I live in an area …
Classic Movie Impression: The Bishop’s Wife
This weekend I watched The Bishop’s Wife (1947), which I have watched before but couldn’t remember the end of, so I watched it again. The movie stars Cary Grant as an angel named Dudley who comes to earth to help Bishop Henry Brougham, (David Niven). Henry is so wrapped up in securing funding for a …
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December 19, 2024
Last Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot of 2024!
This link-up is hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me. Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. This is a link-up where we not only allow you to share your past posts, but we encourage it. …
December 18, 2024
My books aren’t making money and I’m never going to be famous but writing fiction is fun
I am very excited to be getting closer to the release of Gladwynn Grant Shakes the Family Tree. I don’t have an exact release date just yet but the manuscript is in the editing stage with corrections being made. From there it will go through another round of edits and another round of corrections and …
