This blog isn’t asking if you could, but would you. If the work was something you loved? If it was something you didn’t necessarily need to earn an income to support? If not working at a consistently paying job didn’t send you or your family to destitution, would you work for nothing? Volunteer work is [...]

Periodically new ideas with promo potential come along. Twitter is one of the latest things around. So what is Twitter, you ask? Basically it’s a tiny blog that you update throughout the day. When I say tiny I mean a small, since 140 characters is the maximum amount you can write in each post. The [...]

Another year has passed and I am a day older.  Yup, today’s my birthday!
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy birthday to meeeee, happy birthday to mee! 
Okay now that we’ve gotten that out of the way… I’ve been thinking a lot about my dreams, and I don’t mean dreams that happen while I’m [...]

My kids love this quick recipe and so do I.  Because…well, it’s quick!  Leaving me time to get back to that scene.  The one where I emotionally torture my hero and heroine–cause I’m nice like that. Mua-ha-ha-ha–*cough*  Yeah…so, Chicken Stir-Fry.  That’s what we were talking about, right?  Yeah, stir-fry.
Chicken Stir-Fry (Once again a Sandra Original)
2-3 Boneless [...]

I love writing. I always have. I revisited some of my older work and found angst ridden poetry. I have no idea, right now, why I was so depressed as a teen.  Some of the work seems trite and jaded now. But one poem stands out. I still like it; and while the incidents causing this [...]

Right now I’m working on a website and it’s giving me fits! Yes, I know I could be writing, but hey, this is my day job. The problem is certain elements in the website just don’t want to fit correctly no matter how I wiggle, tweak or bribe them, they just refuse to work.
Then I [...]

I can’t take the credit for most of this list. It’s taken from the Persil website, which I visited after seeing the ad on our local TV. I love this ad because it shows kids getting dirty. IMO, kids should play in the mud and get dirty. It’s part of growing up, and I certainly [...]

I am sooo late with posting today, my apologies.  I’ve been busy wrapping up judging a writing contests and getting the finalist information together, as well as teaching my Tudors Workshop at Charter Oak Romance Writers Group.  If you’re interested, you can sign up at www.charteroakromancewriters.org
So today I thought I would check in with everyone [...]

Well, in keeping with our food theme, I’d like to talk about…well, food. Meals, actually. You know, those pesky things that keep you away from writing–What? The kids have to eat EVERY night?
It’s sad, but true. Like Leigh mentioned yesterday, there are countless distractions out there. Each and every one of them are lurking in [...]

Ok. Using last weeks post to segue into food related euphamisms, I’m talking about when the momentum gets going, how do you share it amid your other life’s duties? Some people would say become organized. That is a project in of itself. But I know it could be done. I think, as with writing, you [...]