Category: At Home

• At Home Sunday Morning Coffee

  Sunday Character Casting

  One of my favorite things to do is to scour images to find just the right people to play my characters.  I’m not the only author to do this, BTW.  I’ve seen whole Pin boards devoted to this fun activity for authors.  Perhaps I should create my own Pin board….nahhhh….that…

  February 23, 2014
• At Home Sunday Morning Coffee

  Sunday Morning Snit…sort of….but not really…

  Okay, I wrote a whole long rant to post and then deleted it all….   “Wait a minute,” I told myself. “What do you think you’re doing?  This is NOT the tone you want to set for all those Sunday morning readers!  Geez!   Not at all!!!!  Furthermore, neither do you…

  February 2, 2014
• At Home Sunday Morning Coffee

  Imagining Rain over Sunday Morning Coffee

  I am imagining rain today….probably because people are talking about drought.  It has been a lovely winter in Northern California.  The nights have been chilly and clear or if there has been coastal fog (which the redwoods drink), it burns off early in the day.  The days have been sunny…

  January 25, 2014
• At Home Sunday Morning Coffee

  Sunday Morning Coffee

  Some of you may remember a reporter named Charles Kuralt, an American Journalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuralt).  For many years he had a Sunday Morning news show.  It was great.  It was interesting. It was folksy. It was chill.   It eased you into your Sunday Morning.   I’d wake up on Sundays,…

  January 4, 2014
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  Pictures from ZipLining in Arcata

  January 1, 2014
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  Road Trip! Plan B

  And tomorrow we begin. As of about three weeks ago, our plan was to drive back to Minnesota where we would hook up with an outfitter who would hand us a canoe, stick us on a pontoon plane, and plop us in the middle of Quetico Provential Park for 10…

  May 12, 2013