My Blog
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Christmas Parties
I am not generally a ‘party’ kind of person. Honestly, if you know anything about me, you know this. I spent my childhood hiding from parties. In my room, in the woods, in books, and in stories out of my own head. Once, I hid in a rabbit hutch. Someone found me. I’m still bitter…
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Christmas Is Coming!
I love December. Christmas lights, music, snow, parties and presents and people we love. Yep, it’s my favorite. I already bought all my Christmas presents, if you can believe that. And wrapped them. Chocolate wine was involved. And Christmas movies. It was a good day. But now that November is past and Thanksgiving is behind…
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Interview With An Artist
Eeek! Guess what? I got to interview the beautiful woman who did the illustrations for my books: Of Mice and Fairies and Of Bullfrogs and Snapdragons. I could talk about her forever, but she talked a lot about herself, so I’ll let you hear it from her. What’s it like working for an author? (Specifically…
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Vacation
This week, I am not going into the office. I am taking my first vacation days since starting this job, and I am so excited. I’m going to sleep in, read way too many books, write my own projects, and spend so, so much time with my family. And maybe watch way too much Disney+.…
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Who Has Time To Read??
This week, I spent Friday night nannying at someone’s house. Because I party hard, ya’ll. I don’t normally nanny anymore, mostly because I work forty hours a week in an office, then get home and work on side hustle/personal career/books until I go to sleep. But this particular job fell into my lap, and I…
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Growing Roots
I have three trees growing in my house. And a handful of acorns in the back of my fridge, ready for the spring. So, of course, yesterday I found pine seeds scattered all over my porch from the wind and couldn’t help myself. Now they’re in my fridge, sealed in a plastic bag with a…