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Reading lessons with bebe

Every Wednesday since the beginning of this school year I've gone to bebe's school to help her class with reading. bebe has been a really, really good memorizer and word recognizer since pre-school, but I have seen her blossom so much over the past few months that I am blown away.

Books have always been part of her life. During the lo-o-ong nights as a newborn I would read or sing with her to settle her down.

She carried around those board-books with a picture and single word on the pages so l...

My Word for 2015

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A snowy day

Sometimes on snowy days when I don't feel like writing or the words won't come or I am stalled by the seemingly endless waiting that is part of My Life in Publishing, I do this.
Other times, I do this.
And sometimes I go on a binge and do this.
The blankets and gowns are for children who are ill in hospitals. The pillowcases go to shelters for the homeless or the abused. I also make pillows for breast cancer survivors, turbans for chemo patients, and tote bags for hospital patients to carry thin...

Spotlight on Lynda J. Coker

The Wranglers welcome Lynda J. Coker to the round corral today. Help her celebrate the release of Stormee Waters.
Blurb:
Dirk Savage never fails to acquire what he wants until he encounters Stormee Waters and a backwash of trouble...
Stormee Waters knows about hard times. Needing to care for her aging grandmother and teenage brother, she moves to Houston, Texas and takes a writing job for a popular magazine. Her first assignment is to interview a successful business man for a series o...

2015--The Year of Determination

Today it's my turn to share my word for the year.

And after much thought and consideration, I choose Determined.

And Snoopy was only a mild influence. How could I refuse that face???

But, seriously...

 As many of you may or may not know, I am a procrastinator.

I am not just a your basic run-of-the-mill blow stuff off type of person, I am a world-class procrastinator. 

And this is the year that I am going to try and break through that mode. To that end, I am determined to:

Finish a marketab...

My Word for 2015

Liz started this week off with a post about her word for the year, and I thought I'd add mine in...because there is a word that has been in my head for a couple of weeks now, and I am making that my word for 2015. A word that I'll reflect on, a word that I will use to embrace even those trying times.

That word is ENJOY.

Last week I posted about taking the time to really be in the moment - the moments with family and friends, of course, but also those odder moments when you know you should be fo...

Mushy Mind...

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My word for the year--what's yours?

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          Happy New Year to everyone. I hope 2015 is your happiest, best time ever. Do you do resolutions? Or do you do, like so many have said this year, “intentions”?           I don’t care that much for the intentions meme because it just makes me think of the old “road to hell” saying and I’ve had enough good intentions to make that a scary thought. I don’t make resolutions because that is just setting myself up to...

The Dawn of 2015

 I'm up early this morning and have yet to contemplate what I want in 2015. I'll tell you my word next week--once I figure it out. 

Last night I went to bed early so I could get up earlier and bake a loaf of banana bread before I head to work. I tried this new recipe with a cream cheese filling and my family is in love. I think they are letting the bananas go over-ripe on purpose so I have to make the bread.

 But during the night, I kept waking up with notes for a book. I wanted...

A New Year's Resolution...Of Sorts

I love this picture...and it's kind of a poignant reminder because its front-and-center in my calendar - the picture on the page facing my birthday week. Which was well over 2 months ago, but I'd marked it as a reminder and this morning the marker kind of flipped itself so I saw it again.

I like the pic not just because the image is one of my favorite things to do - hang out on a hammock/in the pool/lazing around - in my summer downtime. But because of the quote that goes along with it:

spend t...