I published my first work of nonfiction this year What a way to start 2025. After arriving home from work on December 30th 2024, I started writing a short book called Understanding Your Cat: A Guide and Memoir on How to Ensure Your Cat Lives Their Best Life. I finished writing it January 1rst 2025 […]
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During this pandemic, what is your new normal?
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Adoption Day for Pearlie Blue
So, she isn’t blue. She is a brown tiger with a tail that looks like it should be on a raccoon. Her name was Samoa, but I didn’t like that. I wanted to name her something that would be dear to my heart so I chose Pearlie Blue after the title of a bluegrass song […]
Continue readingAt Sharon Griffes Tarr’s Studio
Yesterday, Sunday, March 24, 2019, I journeyed to Williamston Michigan to Sharon Griffes Tarr’s studio in her home to buy a painting. I was amazed at all the lovely paintings on the walls and in a drawer. She is a prolific plein air painter of landscapes. There were several paintings that I wanted, but price […]
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Sharon Griffes Tarr is a friend on Facebook. I’ve been following her for a while. Recently, she has been posting pictures of an oil painting she is working on for a competition. The painting is lovely. It has bunny tracks in white-blue snow along a frozen creek with trees and long, brown grass stems. You […]
Continue reading30,000 words and counting
Today, we had a snow day at work. Actually we were sent home early because of the bad weather. Since I had the afternoon off (work was called at noon today), I decided to write. Yesterday, I wrote over 1,000 words to 28,464. Today, I wrote to 30,120 words. I felt better about writing almost […]
Continue reading5 Ways to become a successful writer
According to a recent article I read from Writer’s Digest there are five things everyone who wants to finish a novel draft must do. They are–as I remember them: Just do it. Don’t put it off just sit down and get something on the page. Just do it. Don’t look at a blank page start […]
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I have three cats. Two of which are situated on me. One is licking it’s back on my left leg while the other is sleeping in my zip-up jacket. It’s hard to write with cats on me, but they obviously missed me while I was at work today and so I let them stay. I […]
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