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Santa’s Photographer: Part Five

Continued from Part Four. To read from the beginning, start here. “It was too weird to be sweet.” Shell swirled thecorkscrew of lemon peel in her cocktail. “I was convinced Liz Harkness would hear him and toss me out. I … Continue reading →

Santa’s Photographer: Part Four

Continued from Part Three. To read from the beginning, start here. Shell pulled up toLiz Harkness’s house three minutes early. She took a minute to check her camera bags and freshen her lip gloss. This wasn’t the kind of neighborhood … Continue reading →

Santa’s Photographer: Part Three

Continued from Part Two. To read from the beginning, start here: Gib Walker swung his son higher, relishing the pealing belly-laughs as the swing flew out a little farther. Cade didn’t laugh as often as Gib wished. Even Liz’s remarriage … Continue reading →

Santa’s Photographer: Part Two

Continued from part one. “Everybody look at Cupcake!” The words came out of Shell’smouth in a bizarre falsetto while she rattled a stuffed elf on the end of a stick. “Say ‘Sugar Plum Fairy!'” Gerry’s eyes twinkled behind his grandfatherly … Continue reading →

Santa’s Photographer: Part One

But it’s your dream to be a working photographer! Aren’t you thrilled to be making so many families happy? “Just because it’s your dream doesn’t mean it’s not grueling, exhausting work.” Shell Burnick wasn’t aware she was grumbling aloud while … Continue reading →

Cam’s Food Lab: Those Serious Eats Noodle Jars That Are Probably All Over Pinterest

The Food Lab: Make Your Own Just-Add-Hot-Water Instant Noodles (and Make Your Coworkers Jealous) | Serious Eats. The article above grabbed my attention a while ago, when it made the rounds in my Facebook feed. It took me a couple … Continue reading →

Running My Vote In, or: Who Knew Such Wonders Existed?

I had a rare morning off from parenting yesterday. Election Day is a day off for the Small Boy’s school district, and he was off having a sleepover with Gramma and Grampa. Sleep in! my poor weary brain cried. For … Continue reading →

That Five Random Things Meme

Cheryl made me do it. (Don’t tell, but it’s kind of fun to be prodded into some Blogging Like It’s 2010.) My current day job involves numbers, sports, and talking on the phone. Sometimes I feel like I live two … Continue reading →

Blackfern Girls: A Review

It takes a special kind of storytelling to allow a reader to fall in love with a deadly, haunted place, and that it exactly what happened when I stepped inside Elizabeth Yon’s Johns Woods, the backdrop for all four stories … Continue reading →

Last night I dreamed of Zippy.

Zippy is our hummingbird. Well, insomuch as a hummingbird belongs to anyone. Zippy is the female hummingbird who, in the dog days of summer, finally discovered our optimistically hung feeder. The feeder, a gift from my mother-in-law, was filled and … Continue reading →