After several days of delays due simply to the crazies of life, we finally picked winners for my Mother’s Day Giveaway Content! Congratulations to Jana and Katie! My 9-year-old son did the random choosing so I had nothing to do with who the actual winners were…..so if you’re upset you didn’t win, take it up […]
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Mother’s Day Giveaway!
So…in honor of Mother’s Day AND the debut of my brand-new, redesigned site (thanks to Marc Miller @ Big Ocean Studios!), a few of my Redbud Writers Guild friends and I have come up with a great giveaway! A four-book package with a retail value of like 50 bucks or something. (Maybe, I haven’t even […]
Becoming Real
A lot of people use the birth analogy for writing a book. I’m not quite sure it’s right. I mean, it sort of is…but not quite. (Is it wrong to admit I really hate when men use this analogy? I could write a whole other post on this, but that’s not why I logged in […]
Growl Halle-Rottweiler!
The great thing about a sweet picture of a rottweiler puppy for a test post is that it doesn’t matter at all what I write here. Let’s just all look at that widdle facey wacey. Thanks to my web guy extraordinaire, Marc Miller, for popping this up. Makes my miss my old, sweet Rottweiler, Blade. (Honestly, […]
Thank You Good Morning America!
Carla: I had hoped I’d have a new job today, but that is not to be. And I’m okay with it. Really. I am. I found out yesterday that I had not been chosen, so I’ve had some time to think about how I feel about that. Here’s what I’ve got. 1) Yes, I’m disappointed, […]
The Tiger Mother In Us
Guest post by Helen Lee By now, you’ve surely heard about the infamous Wall Street Journal article entitled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” based on Amy Chua’s new book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. As I read the WSJ excerpt, I cringed at Chua’s methods of imposing her brand of perfect parenting on […]
