Family Friday: Hello, January; Goodbye, Christmas Carols

            I grew up with music all around me. My official job when I was seven years old was the record flipper. Whenever the record finished with Side A, my job was to flip it over to Side B and be careful with the needle not to scratch the record. My parents loved...

Writing Monday: Where do you write?

Where do you write? Romance writers often fall into one of three categories: plotters, pantsers, and plotsers. Plotters plan out the road map of their novel before they write with tools such as an outline, Scrivener, syllabi, index cards, etc. Pantsers usually fly by...

Family Friday: Eleven Hugs and Kisses

Eleven hugs and kisses. Whenever I leave my home to go somewhere else to write, my youngest son, Chunk, asks for eleven kisses and eleven hugs. His four year old self stands there while I bend down and deliver a kiss and a hug, a kiss and a hug, and so on until I...

Family Friday: Movie Theater Candy

My wonderful hubby and I don’t go to the movies very often anymore. When we started dating in college, we went to the movies all the time. We were both members of a cinematic group at our college and if we helped with the showings, we received free admission....