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5 Things To Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving

~ ~ ~ Steph’s Scribe wishes all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving, and is extremely thankful for the following this year: 5. Wow! 50,000+ hits on Steph’s Scribe, and 25,000 + hits on Paperblog. 4. Steph’s Scribe’s blog followers…over 2,000! 3. Readers Favorite and the Bronze Medal for Contemporary Romance for my novel “Beneath [...]

What To Do When Your Momma Gives You The Bird: How To Cook A “Melt-In-Your-Mouth” Turkey

I can take absolutely no credit for this—absolutely no credit whatsoever. It’s my mother’s recipe, and this year I will be attempting it for the first time. Thanksgiving is at our house, and I’m the chef. But I’m kind of a thief, as well, because I’m totally stealing her recipe. I wouldn’t cook a turkey [...]

How To Cook A “Melt-In-Your-Mouth” Turkey

I can take absolutely no credit for this—absolutely no credit whatsoever. It’s my mother’s recipe, and this year I will be attempting it for the first time. Thanksgiving is at our house, and I’m the chef. But I’m kind of a thief, as well, because I’m totally stealing her recipe. I wouldn’t cook a turkey [...]

Four Things I Learned In Miami at the Readers Favorite Awards

* * * Sometimes when my students do an intense assignment, when they’ve completed it, I ask them to write a reflection, typically in the form of a reflective essay. When we sit in peace after we’ve experienced something, it allows us time to be creative and think about what it all meant to us. [...]

Dreaming of A Writing Cottage

Ever since I saw the piece on “60 Minutes” about writer David McCullough, his process and his writing shed, I’ve been dreaming of a writing cottage of my own. I know it’s asking a lot. My office at home is fine; it’s got a chandelier, beautiful blue walls, pink curtains, and it does the job [...]

William Zinsser’s Mad Wisdom

“Few people realize how bad they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style and how it obstructs what they are trying to say. If you give me an eight-page article and I tell you to cut it to four pages, you’ll howl and say it can’t be [...]

C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-I-O-N !!! Woo-Hoo!

Steph’s Scribe hit a milestone today! 50,000 Hits on Steph’s Scribe! 24,000+ hits on Paperblog! Thank you all  for your kind support. * * * Additionally, I received this lovely comment today about “Beneath the Mimosa Tree” from a dear friend and wanted to share it with you. I can’t tell you how much Charles [...]

Conversations With My Daughter & Elf On The Shelf

Yesterday, my family and I went to Washington, D.C. We walked around Georgetown and did a little pre-Christmas shopping. It was a beautiful day to be taking in the sights and sounds of Georgetown, and the place was hopping! Before we left, we were discussing what was in Georgetown to see—and we were talking about [...]

Mimosa Trees & Christmas Trees: A Letter From A Reader

This morning, I thought I’d share a letter I received from a reader. Dear Stephanie, I read your novel, “Beneath the Mimosa Tree,” and enjoyed it from the first page to the last. It’s such a perfect read for this time of year! While your title reflects something that happened “under the tree,” I wanted [...]

Blessings & Curses

Last night, I had the tremendous pleasure of meeting Jeannette Walls. The second in a series of speakers hosted by Stevenson University in Baltimore, Walls’s humor, energy, and stellar storytelling capabilities were front and center as a packed house listened to her discuss details of her life as depicted in Walls’s bestselling memoir, “The Glass [...]