Live Blog Chat With Interesting Author Dec 23!!!

Well, yes. You would be correct if you guessed that the interesting author will be me.  And I know some of you get to chat with me a lot in…

Mask Making for Dummies…(OK – I Admit It)…

[picapp align=”none” wrap=”false” link=”term=mask&iid=7009462″ src=”c/3/3/5/Hockey_Hall_of_fad5.jpg?adImageId=8097021&imageId=7009462″ width=”455″ height=”594″ /] (PS – this is not the Slipknot mask) What Happened My eight-year-old son is like many other young boys: he wants to…

IndiePendent Books…An Online Bookstore…

IndiePendentBooks.com Announcing the opening of an online bookstore dedicated to self-published authors:  For authors, especially new authors, the road to traditional publishing is very winding and rocky, and could lead…

An Inspiration – A Lesson in Giving…

[picapp src=”0214/0b77d1c4-0ec8-4cac-9f06-b931430430c2.jpg?adImageId=7332600&imageId=218009″ width=”234″ height=”317″ /]I always try to find some way for my young kids (ages 8 and 11) to get involved in helping others. And this year, I have…

Snapshots: Impressions From Births & Birthdays…

Impressions From a Stillbirth: There is no crying upon entry to the world. There is no sound at all, and it is the most horrible silence you could imagine. There…

Poison Control on Speed Dial??….

Last night I went with my kids, and my daughter’s family, trick-or-treating.  Her cute two-year-old was dressed as a gorilla (he’s big for his age, what can I say?).  As…

October 31, Halloween, 1993…

I remember Halloween of 1993 very well – It was a Saturday, and Saturday Halloween’s are hard to come by.  Halloween 1993 was the day several of my music boxes,…