Linda Poitevin's Blog, page 46

A Feather or an Omen?

You’ve heard about art imitating life, right? Well, I have a twist for you. It seems that life is imitating art in my house…in a distinctly woo-woo kind of way. See, I was doing the dusting the other day and, on a wall clock, I found this: I know what some of you are thinking, “So […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Bring on the Zombie Apocalypse!

  Some of you who follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook may know that I went on a bit of a preserving spree this year. I really hadn’t planned on it, but I hadn’t done any last year either, and honestly? It was more stressful not to do it (kind of like withdrawal…sigh…). I have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

5 Reasons I Write About Cops

If you’ve read the Grigori Legacy series, you’ll know that the main character, Alexandra Jarvis, is a homicide detective. There are actually several reasons for this: I myself am a wanna-be cop. The story goes like this: I applied for the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police for you non-Canadians ) when they still had height […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Remembering Our Fallen Heroes: Police Memorial Day

Each year, the last Sunday of September marks the Police and Peace Officers’ National Memorial Day. Officers from all over North America gather on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to remember comrades who have fallen in the line of duty. They are joined by hundreds of civilians, there to honour those who put their lives on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Making the Top Ten!

It’s unbelievably thrilling when your books are published and make it into the hands of readers. It’s hugely exciting (and a huge relief!) when reviews of those books are (mostly) fabulous. But when one or more of your books start appearing on the “top” lists? Well, that is just plain squee-worthy. Check out the Grigori […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Almost Wordless Wednesday: 25 years ago today

A special day in my life today as I celebrate 25 years of marriage (yes, to the same man!)…and marvel at how I can possibly be old enough to do so. I dusted off my wedding album last night and pulled this out to share with you.

The Joys of Working from Home

I love that I’m able to work from home…most of the time. There are moments, however, when I would really like to be elsewhere. Yesterday contained such a moment. With the advent of fall, we’ve had an influx of mice into the house. I don’t tend to flip out about that kind of thing because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Monday musings…

Well, it appears that Time has done it to me again: it’s September. As in no longer August. Or summer. Already things are winding down in my garden; already I’m eyeing the budget wondering when I can order the winter supply of firewood and beef; already I’m wondering what my daughters will want for (and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

And the Winners Are….

Happy Saturday morning, everyone! The Hot August Nights Giveaway ended last night and with the help of my random number generator — aka my daughter, who didn’t even know about the giveaway until she walked into the family room last night to be greeted with: “Quick, pick a number between 1 and 91…first one that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Hot August Nights Giveaway!

I’ve been promising another blog giveawa for a while and guess what? It’s time! I was actually going to call this the Cleaning Off My Office Shelves Giveaway, but Hot August Nights just has a nicer ring to it, don’t you think? (Probably why Neil Diamond didn’t write a song about cleaning his office. ) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...