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Category Archives: family
A is for Apple, Z is for Zombie, S is for Surprise!
So, those of you who follow my sporadic blog may know that for the past few years I’ve been working on a novel. Every chance I can get, I’ve been sitting in my office, typing away, trying to spin a paranormal thriller. I really thought that would be my first book….
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Posted in education, family, Halloween, writing
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Giving Away a Ghostly Good E-book!
Ok, I’ve decided to go obvious. Yesterday I wrote about the wonderfulness that is my friend Mary Castillo and offered to give away 10 e-book copies of her latest novel Lost in the Light. But clearly, in the parlance of journalism, I must have buried the lede because I still have SIX — yes, 1-2-3-4-5-6 — copies of the e-book that need to find their readers. Continue reading
‘Lost in the Light’ of Friendship
I first met Mary Castillo in Mrs. Hunt’s drama class, my senior year of high school. We shared the same space, but we lived in different worlds for most of that year. She was the beautiful, talented, film-loving director who I was sure would take the world by storm some day. Continue reading
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Singing the Preschool Sick Kid Blues
It started the first week of September. My kid went to preschool for the first time and came back with a cold, then another one, then a virus, then a flu-like thing, then…. With the exception of a few weeks here and there, it’s been an almost non-stop avalanche of illness…. Continue reading
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Please, Stop Making an Ass out of U and Me
“Don’t you have such pretty hair, what pretty hair you have,” the woman croons. “Don’t you think you have such pretty hair? You do. You do, you know.”…. Continue reading
I Love You Like a Love Song, Baby
This is a love story told in five songs. The title of this post, a catchy ditty sung by Selena Gomez, is not one of them.
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