Share the Love

I love receiving blog awards, but I love to pass them on even more. (It's just a matter of getting around to it, I'm afraid!) First,...

Why I'm Gone

I'm heading out for a few days. Some good friends of ours from China are in our state for a couple weeks, so we're driving over to v...

A Story A Week: A Visit From My Father

My father, Marshall Taylor, does not like me to be so punctilious. He lies across the davenport as a walrus might recline across a rock. I b...

A Story A Week: Wild Man

He wears no shirt, tight jean cut-offs, Teva sandals with the straps frayed. His hair is a mop of dreads. I see him balanced on a one of the...

Two-Post Thursday

I have to play catch up because there's so much to blog about, but not enough days in the week. So, today I'll be posting two posts....

Nugget: The Virtues of Sleep

We discussed this at the Inland Empire SCBWI conference in Spokane on Saturday. It's a very small golden nugget of writing wisdom, but h...

Two Days in Incomplete Sentences

*A post composed completely of incomplete sentences.* Wonderful time at writing conference in Spokane. Love the Inland Empire. Long drive ho...

The Night of Incessant Vomit

Went to bed at 10:30. Woke up at 11:00 to Anna wailing. Brought her to bed with us. @ 11:30 she was throwing up. Dashingly Handsome Sidekick...

The Ultimate Antagonist: Dr. Doofenshmirtz

There are few villains I love as much as Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from the cartoon Phineas and Ferb . He's a bad guy, yes. He plots evil....

FitG Update: Ten Cents a Dance

Another excellent book! My favorite part of this one was the incredible setting. I felt like I was in 1940's Chicago. If you're inte...

Nugget: Looky, Looky

I think I shared this golden writing-tip nugget already. But I can't find it in my archives, so maybe I didn't. Maybe I'm just g...

She was Ready

Today was Anna's first day of preschool. (I have pictures, but they'll have to wait because our main computer is still waaaay down i...

A Story A Week: Womble

“Mom, it’s a womble.” “No, baby, it’s a platypus.” The cart’s wheels squeaked like a hatchling crying as we inched forward in line. “The tag...

Nugget: Secondary Character Dialogue

Here's a little golden nugget of a writing tip for you on this beautiful Saturday. This one is so obvious, when it was pointed out to me...

A Story A Week: Over His Shoulder

Roland made the mistake of looking back. The hills spread in waves below him, silvery brown as the wind smoothed the grass blades, like some...

Winners! (and some extra winners)

It's Labor Day. I'm hangin' out watching the Boise State game against Virginia Tech ( GO BRONCOS! ), and getting psyched to ann...

WiP Saturday: Time Out

I know, I know, it's not Wednesday, but I had to share.... PHEW! I'm really, really done with the first draft of the rewrite of my W...

Accomplishments

I did not accomplish anything yesterday except: Making our house messier/ watching several small people make our house messier. Did not clea...