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My Everything, A Work of Romantic Suspense.

Security consultant Ben McCall is alone. His wife and unborn child are dead, victims of an assassination attempt meant for someone else. He blames himself. Grieving, he disappears, dead to almost everyone and everything from his past. When his best friend is in danger Ben resurfaces, only to find his friend isn’t the target of a murderer, he is.

Grace Adams is one of the walking wounded. A pain specialist who treats cancer patients, she’s lost her new husband to leukemia. One night she finds h...

Ice bags on our knees, bonding… Interesting times.

We have time on our hands, you know. (Sort of. Me, not so much.) Both of us recovering from knee surgery. So what do we do? We talk. I told my husband that as an author I should be wary of talking politics, religion or current events.

He said – “Who made that dumb-ass rule? Isn’t this still a free country?”

Um, well…

So this is the stuff we talk about while we are recuperating.

1. Guess everyone’s gonna have to give up pronouns because they have been deemed sexist.

It’ll be– “Hey, how you doin’ th...

It just hit me. I’m enjoying House of Cards more than Game of Thrones.

Therefore I must ask myself, why?

Is there a problem with the acting on Game of Thrones? Hells no. It’s superb as always.

Have the producers skimped on the sets or costuming? Again, hells no.

Have the characters remained true to themselves? Yes.

Has the blood and gore factor diminished in any perceptible way? Absolutely not.

Is there nothing on the line? Nothing left to fight for? Oh, honey, it’s all on the line.

Is devil-spawned Joffrey Baratheon still the most hated character in the history of me...

Let’s not burn/ban books… Umkay?

Once upon a time, when my dad was young, he fought against book banning.

During the Jim Crow era, which did not end in our county (in Iowa) until 1964, he, along with other courageous folk (all fighting for civil rights), fought the good fight to keep books like To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee in our library.

Now I hear that the new-styleprogressives, which as far as I’m concerned are nothing more than old-style fascists, once again (seems like we must fight this same fight over and over)...

Je suis epuise…

Mon Dieu.

Jake on top of hub’s sore knee, of course.

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All good thoughts.

Tomorrow is my husband’s knee surgery. As you may recall he gallantly gave up his surgery date for me since I needed a pretty urgent knee repair. We share the same surgeon. The man who saved my left knee. He and I are both hoping he’s now managed to save the right.

So I made him like two gallons of granola. When he made the original appointment for my husband he asked, “Is Julia still making granola?” Hint. Hint. You see, I’d made him a whole lot of granola out of gratitude after my last surge...

Writerly advice. It wears on me.

Authors, usually successful authors, marketing their road to success to other authors– It has grown tiresome– J.W. Manus excepted.

So here’s what I read all the damn time:

If you do this, you’ll succeed.

If you do that, you’ll succeed.

If you do this, you’ll fail.

If you do that, you’ll fail.

If you do what I do, you’ll succeed.

If you assume you know what’s best, (the unsaid being if you don’t listen to me), you’ll fail.

Success requires that you buy my book about how to achieve success.

Success is...

I think I hate the word oeuvre.

Oeuvre: Any work or the works of a writer, painter or artist. Can refer to the entire body of work.

Degas

I heard the word the other day used in a way, or rather, used in a context which made oeuvre seem so pretentious I sort of wanted to puke. Well… There was no sort of about it. I did want to puke.

It’s like when Giada (you know which Giada I mean) pronounces food-ish words in a pretentious precious Italian accent. Hate it. Just say the word in plain old English, please. There’s nothing cute a...

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From Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt on her blog site, liebjabberings:

“A light hand with the heavy subject of Death and Dying, March 27, 2014

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Crossing the Great Divide. Cultural Differences and Hospice Care.

Just my observations after twelve years of hospice nursing. What I have to say is not gospel so don’t take it as such.

Every culture/religion/society varies in its approach to death, or acceptance/nonacceptance of death. View of death. The way we treat death. The mythology, religious beliefs and folk beliefs associated with death.

That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change. Bruce Hornsby

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