Is the thump of hammers and other tools as workmen replace the ugly carpet in the guest room with hardwood to match the rest of the house.  Mary Ann and Jen have been busy removing wallpaper these past few days.  Now that the new floor is going in, the cats...

I was so busy writing on "Big Sky Country" yesterday that I didn't even remember the blog until I was too tired to write it.  🙂  Something was off with the number of pages I'd written, too, so I went back and sure enough, I'd skipped Chapter 14...

I am so close to finishing this book!  And I'm already chomping at the bit to get on with the second story in the series.  :)I continue with the D.I.E.T. and, this is amazing, but I don't miss being able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want.  The...

Writing like a crazy woman!Be back tomorrow.

I got Chapter 16 drafted yesterday, and today I plan to polish it and draft 17.  Since there are 19 or 20 chapters in my books, I'm nearly finished!  It doesn't seem possible, what with all that's been going on.Jen is under the weather this morning, so...

Have I ever mentioned that I love Tuesdays?  Why?  Because they are so deliciously ordinary, for one thing.And because new books and movies come out on Tuesdays, for another.  Even as I write these words, I'm downloading new audiobooks to listen to on...

Since I usually don't blog on Sundays, there was no entry yesterday.  Still, September 11 is too important not to mention.  Truly, none of us will ever forget that otherwise beautiful early-autumn morning, and we shouldn't.  Many innocents and...

10 pounds gone!  Yeehaw!  And I expect the pace to pick up a little when I get my Treadclimber--it's on the way.I was thinking you'd all be bored silly by my latest diet--it isn't as if we haven't been through this before, after all--but looking at the...

Maybe that should be the new name for the blog.  :)I'm feeling better every day, though of course I still miss my Sadie-bean something fierce.  I'm so grateful for every moment we got to share, that beagle and I.  She was a joy to me the whole time she...

I wrote yesterday, and was I ever into the story (Big Sky Country)--this is the part of a book I most love to write, the last third.  By then, things are really rolling, and there are lots of loose ends to tie up, and the work is usually fast and furious (in the...

The holiday weekend is over and, even though I enjoyed it, I'm glad it's time to get back to Real Life--which, for me, includes writing.  :)I finished listening to "The Language of Flowers", and enjoyed it, though for some reason I thought it was set in Victorian...

6 pounds.  That's all I'll say about the D.I.E.T.  (Picture me doing the happy dance.)Or not.  :)It's Friday, the beginning of a long weekend.  I'm going to be working, except for a probable dash to Hobby Lobby--like I need more art supplies, see...