Tagged: misc

Christmas Pancakes! 8

Christmas Pancakes!

A few years ago, I started a tradition of cooking breakfast for the family on Christmas Eve. It was a full cooked breakfast, just like my dad used to do for my brothers and...

Happy “Holidays”? 5

Happy “Holidays”?

One of the most frustrating things to me about Christmas is the government/business/media insistence on replacing the word “Christmas” with “holiday.” I will grant that in some cases there is just cause for doing...

This Month on the Blog… 8

This Month on the Blog…

So, we’re already a week into December and there’s not been a single Christmas blog post here. What’s wrong with me? It’s true that by this time last year, I had already posted a...

Monday Miscellaneous 3

Monday Miscellaneous

This is just a quickie post (or as quickie as I can be, which is usually not very quickie, but I’ll give it a try… and look–I’m failing already!) to let you know a...

Family Blogs and First World Problems 6

Family Blogs and First World Problems

A number of months ago, my oldest daughter started her own blog. She too is an aspiring writer, and she wanted to get involved in the writer community a bit more. Not only is...

WriteOnCon is Next Week! 8

WriteOnCon is Next Week!

Just a quick heads-up to all my writerly friends. WriteOnCon 2012 starts next week, Tuesday, August 14th and Wednesday, August 15th! There will also be some pre-conference activity on Monday, August 13th you might...

Some Monday FYIs 4

Some Monday FYIs

This is just a quick post to let you know a few things. First, I’m traveling again for work this week (not as far as California this time), and I have no idea how...

Blog Birthday Giveaway Winner! 0

Blog Birthday Giveaway Winner!

Hello, everyone! Just a quick post to announce the winner of my Blog Birthday Giveaway.  So, here goes, without any more ado… really… no more adoing here… drum roll… and the winner is, as...

Blog Birthday Giveaway: Last Call! 0

Blog Birthday Giveaway: Last Call!

This is it, ladies and gentlemen. Today is the last day of my Blog Birthday Giveaway. The prize is EITHER:   a $20 Amazon Gift Card OR $20-worth of Books from The Book Depository...

Blog Birthday and Giveaway! 38

Blog Birthday and Giveaway!

As well as being Father’s Day, today is my blog’s first birthday! Woohoo! It was a year ago today that I installed WordPress on my website and wrote my very first blog post. Here...