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April 2014

April 14, 2014

Write Through the Abyss or Buy An Area Rug

Yes, my insta feed, twitter feed & FB feed was all abuzz from my time...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Maybe I’ll be Brave Enough to Finish

I'm considering taking a month long break from blogging and t.v. watching AND book reading. ...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

In Which I Attempt to Finish My Book in 4 Days

I read The Ditchdigger's Daughters in 11th grade when I had absolutely no aspirations for college...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

My Day in Court. When God Presides.

photo credit I've been speaking and giving testimonies surrounding just about every aspect of the...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

Would you sit with me for an hour? + win a $10 Starbucks gift card

Would you sit with me for an hour? First things first: I know what your...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

Update on my book. A lot of #amWriting #amEditing progress. =)

I'm excited to update you on my little book project because it's crowning. I'm experiencing...

December 2011

December 27, 2011

Why me Lord? Part 1

I like to build stuff. Not with brick & mortar, though I don't mind building...

December 22, 2011

Discouraged.

Sigh. Prepare for a lil sigh-ing, if your up for it. Yesterday I was reading...

December 06, 2011

Beast Slayer

My memoir has become some what of a tempestuous beast. I'll be honest with you,...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

I Occupied Wall Street, Yo! My Weekend in Manhattan for the Blogher ~ Penguin Writer’s Conference

I was super-duper geeked to attend my first-ever blogging/writing conference hosted by the Mac Daddy

October 2011

October 18, 2011

Life really should be adventerous…

...at least it should be if your a a Meyers-Briggs ESFP like me. ESFP's, well,...

September 2011

September 17, 2011

I kind of want to share a chapter of my upcoming Memoir with you, so here it is.

I am sorry bloggers that all of my social media content right now is about...

August 2011

August 18, 2011

I’m pregnant, hiccuping and sputtering through fear.

Hello Friends! I'm not sure if I'm back to blogging yet, but I've got a...

May 2011

May 26, 2011

Little BLOG of Horrors: Say Goodnight, Gracie.

Have you ever seen Little Shop of Horrors? It's a musical about a nerdy florist...

May 11, 2011

Cascade of Consciousness

Is it not unbelievable how long it can take to recover after being gone for...

April 2011

April 25, 2011

Cascade of Consciousness

First off, lent is over! (I can have Diet Dr. Pepper, Orange pop & Diet...

April 06, 2011

I have a book!

Not a book deal, per se... but a book. And I mean that in the...

March 2011

March 18, 2011

The One About Why I Shouldn’t Date Demons. (Or Want to Run off & Marry Them in Vegas) Part 1 of 2

I'm pretty sure my past has caught up to me. Back when I was in...

March 07, 2011

Remember the time I fell upside down and hung by my shoe and my two twist ponytails got caught in a tree and we had to pick the needles out for 3 hours? No, I didn’t remember it either. Until now.

Last week, facebook connected me to a friend I grew up with. We met at...

February 2011

February 23, 2011

the slump

All right. *sigh* I hit the slump. A.K.A. the valley that comes after the mountain...

August 2010

August 02, 2010

Live Through This

Book Review I recently read Debra Gwartney's brave memoir, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir...

June 2010

June 09, 2010

“I’m Not from That House.”

I’m not from rows of houses that all look the same. Where perfectly manicured lawns...

October 2009

October 07, 2009

I have a dream (too)

Around this time last year I met a friend of the very gifted author, Ann...

September 2009

September 12, 2009

Embracing my inner Hermione Granger

How do you best learn? I realized in the past few years that I've totally...

August 2009

August 18, 2009

thick skin.

So, I tweeted the other day about how I needed "thicker skin," with all these...

July 2009

July 16, 2009

Winding Down…

Today is July 16. Yikes! Meaning I've got exactly 16 days left until my Sabbatical...

June 2009

June 05, 2009

A Biskie Brawny heads this way

No Biskie Beauty for me. It's a boy. The saddest part of the whole day...

June 05, 2009

“Diva of the Day”

After my last blog, I felt so heavy-hearted. I came home from Panera & got...

April 2009

April 14, 2009

Youv’e read the 1st chapter, now the real story…

Thanks for all the feedback facebooker's & blogging friends! When I went to school yesterday...

April 10, 2009

Release of my 1st Chapter!! Sneak Peek of my book…

I've been reading Stephen King's hillarious and irreverent memoir on writing. (My husband thinks old...

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