To tell the truth, I already had spring flowers before the bomb cyclone winds and snow arrived in Colorado this week. And in spite of the blizzard conditions yesterday, my purple crocuses popped right back up through the snow today. I do love Colorado weather (especially when I can stay inside with a cup of …Read More
Where There’s A Will, There’s Bound To Be A Way
My WordPress Confusion And sure enough, after I did a little more homework, I found I could recall, install, and activate the classic editor screen for creating new blog posts…and use it until at least 2021. What a relief! I’m super busy right now and just don’t have the time to learn another blog writing …Read More
When You Don’t Use an Idea Fast Enough, Does It Really Move on to Someone Else?
Ideas Won’t Hang Around Forever? In 2015, Elizabeth Gilbert’s still best-selling book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, was published. I read it then, and I’m getting ready to read it again this winter. The book gave me a lot to think about, but there’s one point Gilbert made that has come to pass in …Read More
I’m at the Blood-Red Pencil Blog Today!
For posts on writing and editing (and a few on the writing life), visit the Blood-Red Pencil blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus some Friday guest and book birth day posts. You can subscribe to get email notices so you don’t miss a thing. My post for today is What is a Sentence? Come on …Read More
A Schedule Do-Over and a Few Mini-Reviews
Oh boy, I’ve really had it with Facebook. Having the social and info posts I want to see in my timeline controlled by a faceless algorithm and putting up with hate posts and comments so constant I have to unfollow people I care about have taken a toll. I’m in the process of shrinking my …Read More
At Least I’ve Been Reading Lots of Good Books
Even though I’m not working as much on my work in process as I’d planned. Sometimes you just gotta read, read, read until you can’t read anymore. Here are the books I’ve enjoyed the most. Note I’m hopping from one genre to another and sampling lots of new (to me) authors as well as checking …Read More
I’ve Returned to the Blood-Red Pencil Blog
I’m back at the Blood-Red Pencil as a monthly contributor. My first regular post is up today, and it’s all about beginnings. Just because you made a New Year’s resolution and broke it before the end of the first week, you don’t have to throw in the towel. This year, look at those goals and …Read More