I honestly thought I would have time to do two this month, but I ended up taking an unexpected trip to visit my family and was gone when I planned to do the drawing and organize the next giveaway. Oh well – There’s always next month! This time I think… Read the rest...
Late last month I finally completed the manuscript of a project I’d been working on writing for a very long time. We won’t talk about the time it took, but the copy of the manuscript I sent to proofreaders was the sixth revision.
It’s hard to believe that I wrote… Read the rest...
Roses – More of my favorite. Climbing roses growing on the fence at a city park.… Read the rest...
My older brother is a natural born skeptic, far from being naive. So naturally, when he told me he’d won a free laptop by clicking on one of those flashing ad banners on the internet, I thought he’d lost his mind.
It was 2005 and Apple was riding the wave… Read the rest...
I love four-leaf clovers, but when I found this one in the back yard, it was the first time I was ever compelled to leave one alone instead of picking it.It grew just beside the patio out back and was a good inch and a half across. It was bright… Read the rest...
A few years ago, in anticipation of the release of Pokémon Black and White, Nintendo held a series of promotional events at malls across the country. At the time, I worked in the shopping plaza across the street from the mall, so it was a frequent stop for me. The… Read the rest...
By evening, the rose’s color has saturated it completely. The base of each petal remains a soft ivory color, but the petals are filled with a rich pink that’s so deep it’s almost red. It doesn’t look like the same flower, but it is.
And with that, I’ve officially been… Read the rest...