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March 15, 2012
One Day a Year My Brother Is A Leprechaun – St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop & Giveaway!!!
We're having a Blog Hop to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and wearing green! Over 100 authors are talking about being Irish, celebrating the day, wearing green, drinking green beer… pretty much anything!
Each author will be giving away a prize. Like a swag pack, gift cards, ebooks, print books, and so much more. VS sez I'm giving away one $25.00 Amazon gift card and will randomly select a winner Sunday morning from the comments here on my blog.
PLUS the Blog Hop organizer Carrie Ann Ryan will...
March 13, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – Quotes about "Green"
Since this is the week for St. Patrick's Day, I went looking for quotes about the word "green" (being a writer) and found some really unusual ones! (I'll be taking part in a St. Patrick's Day blog hop/giveaway later in the week)
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
F. G. Lorca
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
Russell Page
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest w...
March 11, 2012
Jody Wallace & MeanKitty "Cattify" Priestess of the Nile!
I've been honored today to have the famous MeanKitty perform "cattification" on my novel – enjoy!
The Story
Drawn to her abandoned temple on the banks of the Nile by an enchanting odor like tuna and cheese combined, Pretty-Kitty the Cattian goddess is even more cat-tivated by the sight of the can opener herself…and her TWO opposable thumbs. Appearing to the human as an absolutely divine housecat, Pretty-Kitty learns the human is Mewys, a descendant of her last can-opening priestess. Though...
March 10, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday
Switching gears for a while, leaving Ancient Egypt for the far future – here's the third excerpt from my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, science fiction with romantic elements, coming out next week. Nick Jameson, Sectors Special Forces, has unexpectedly wound up traveling to his next assignment via a new luxury liner. The ship has had problems already on the voyage but now has suffered a catastrophe of Titanic proportions. Nick and his small band of stranded survivors have gone to the...
March 7, 2012
Something to Do For Your Own Good
True story…
My best friend in the whole world – let's call him Sam – is a great guy, father of two, active in the community, a marathon runner, does complex work in support of interplanetary space missions, wicked sense of humor, loyal…well, ok you get the picture.
His mom died of colon cancer at a very young age.
Naturally this wasn't the first topic we ever discussed after we met but eventually it came up. Now I knew that if you lose a close relative to colon cancer at an early age, it may v...
March 6, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy Quotes & Photos – Sunshine
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. Actress Lily Langtry
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine...
March 5, 2012
Last Days of Pompeii in Movies & Books
Woke up this morning thinking about "Last Days of Pompeii," not the novel so much as my favorite movie version of it, which would be the cheesy but still GREAT (IMHO) 1980′s TV mini series. I did read the novel when I was a teenager, have always been fascinated by disaster and how people cope or didn't cope, who lived, who died, what they could have done differently…if you could see my dvd shelves, you'd think I had a pretty comprehensive collection of disaster movies, let me tell you! (Or...
March 4, 2012
Why Do We See in Color? From the Little Black Dress to Orange Shoe Laces
Why do we see in color? "For a hundred years, we've thought that color vision was for finding the right fruit to eat when it was ripe," says Mark Changizi, a theoretical neurobiologist and postdoctoral researcher at Caltech.
But now we know the truth, according to a 2006 Caltech study – your eyes evolved to see rosy cheeks. The eyes in humans and their closest 
relatives in the primate world are geared to detect subtle changes in skin tone caused by blood oxygen levels, according to that...
March 3, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday
Switching gears for a while, leaving Ancient Egypt for the far future – here's the second excerpt from my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, science fiction with romantic elements, coming out in mid March. Nick Jameson, Sectors Special Forces, has unexpectedly wound up traveling to his next assignment via a new luxury liner. The ship has had problems already on the voyage but now has suffered a catastrophe of Titanic proportions. Nick has taken charge of loading a lifeboat:
A shout from...
February 28, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – Glamour & "Glamouflage"
So usually my Wednesday Whimsy is a series of quotes and illustrations on some topic that caught my fancy, and I will get to that but I was delighted today to fall over the term "glamouflage" in an article I was reading. The word was defined by June Ambrose, celebrity stylist, as "…When you use a bold piece to shield a part of your appearance…" and I realized that MY "glamouflage" is my addiction to large earrings (which I've talked about on this blog before)….which I started doing a long t...
