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Dining in the Dark – A Sensory Experience

When my husband first told me he wanted to eat atNOX Dine in the Dark restaurant in Singapore, I thought he was crazy. Dining in the dark? Imagineeating a three course meal in total blindness. Why would anyonewant to do that?

Well, I’m so glad I did. It turned out to be educatingin many ways. NOXwasthe highlight of our holiday, arelaxing, freeing, and yet humbling experience.

Don and I first had a drink in the lounge area while the engaging host, Hafiz, told us what to expect. We were also t...

Pinterest Makes Me Feel Bad About Myself

I can’t browse through Pinterestanymorebecause itmakes me feel bad about myself. According to somepins (see below), I have a nasty mom habit, I’m blogging wrong, pinning wrong, writing characters wrong, my Pinterest strategy isn’t working,I’m sabotaging my hair and skin, my blog is mediocre… and this one really bugs me: “5 Reasons I Didn’t Read your Blog Post.”It’s all so accusatory!

Who wants to feel dissedby social media?

I jumped intoPinterestto have a place holder for ideas w...

Devil’s Food Cake and White Lies

My motherhad anelectric mixer with a rotating bowl that blended her cakes into creamy smoothness, and she always let me lick the bowl clean. All that yummy raw batter.

Shehad nothing but contempt forbox cakes: “Mrs. So-and-So made one of those cakes from a box for the party. It tasted terrible.”

I asked her what terrible tasted like. “Chemicals,” she said. I was quite impressed with herknowledge.

To my mother, box cakes were a sign of laziness. Youmadea cake “from scratch” for yourfamily, wi...

What, Why, How: Erin Rolfson

WHAT?

I’m plodding my way through the first draft of my first novel.

It’s historical fiction (stay with me, it gets more exciting) set in Renaissance Italy. A young woman’s father disappears in the middle of the night, along with several other merchants. She suspects foul play but the local authorities don’t believe her. She forms a group with several other concerned women who take it upon themselves to go, find, and rescue these men. When they do find them it is not only their lives at sta...

Customer Service Still Exists

Would you believe it’sstill possible to get a real person on the phone when you call customer service? And sometimes the person you talk to goes above and beyond to help you? After the largest Internet-based retailer, Amazon, screwed up my order for a standing desk, a real person named John at Uncaged Ergonomics came to the rescue.

I’ve wanted to trya standing desk for a while.After browsing through Amazon, I found the next best thing — a conversion kit from Uncaged Ergonomics withtwo separat...

What, Why, How: Diana Rubino

Diana Rubino is here to answer 3 basic questions about creativity for my series titledWhat, Why, How!

At the Library for the Study of George Washington, Mt Vernon, Virginia

WHAT?

The one-word description of me is ‘curious.’ I hesitate to say ‘nosy’ but ‘curious’ implies the burning desire to learn, and ask ‘why?’ as often as ‘why not?’ So ‘why not’ dedicate at least half my life to a passion that gives me a chance to make a living at it, writing? Coupled with my passion for history, I decided...

Voices of Victims Need to Be Heard

Day five into my iRead Blog Tour, I was wowed by aninsightful review of In the Context of Love from A Splendid Messy Life. Blogger Jenn begins:

Stories of women who have suffered sexual abuse have been at the forefront of media recently. How do we empower these women to find strength within darkness? How do we ensure that they are heard? Those are questions that Linda Sienkiewicz has us think about in her debut novel, In the Context of Love.

For an author, it’s incredibly gratifying when som...

What, Why, How: Kate Dolan

Writer Kate Dolan is here to answer 3 basic questions about creativity for my series titledWhat, Why, How!

WHAT?

Oh geeze, what don’t I write about? On my blog, The Bro Chick, I write in the voice of a twenty-something bro chick (i.e., myself) stumbling through life and the ups and downs that come along with it. This can range from learning to think in ‘we’ terms when you enter your first serious relationship, to how to survive being hungover at work. I really love to make people laugh; it’s...

I’m Going on a Book Tour

I’m going on a book tour… via blogs!Would you believe I’m making27 stops in 12 days?! It’s the perfect book tour for a writer who’s a shy homebody at heart!

MyiRead Book Tour begins March 28 and wraps up April 15th, 2016.All of the blogs are doing reviews, some are having a giveaway, and there’ll also be interviews and guest blog posts. My hope is to engage with some new readers, generate a little traffic to my publisher’s site or my own, and maybe sell a book or two. Mostly I planto have fun...

SciFi Fantasy Author Kim Headlee for #EggcerptExchange

Award winning Science-fiction/fantasy author Kim Headlee has a fascinating background, which includes a stint in the Air Force Academy and a passion for classical oratorio singing (read her full bio). She also has a worthy collection ofhighlyrated books to her name. I’m delighted to have her on my blog toshare her most recent novel,Raging Sea: Reckonings,published byPendragon Cove Press:

About the book:

Those who aspire to greatness must first learn servanthood.

Stripped of kin, clan, country...