In celebration of my trip to Ethiopia, my novel RUNAWAY CHOICES will be free on kindle from now until I land in country. Just like Beck, I’m taking the red-eye flight to London and I’ll even been heading into London for a few hours to see the sights! I’m going to try to VLOG along [...]

My trip to Ethiopia is rapidly approaching and I am beside myself excited. Those of you who follow me on Facebook know I’ve been struggling with the new diagnosis of allergies (wheat, soy, rice, peanuts, nuts, tomatoes and I suspect peas) but I refuse to let that get me down! This trip will be amazing and I [...]

So after an interesting weekend, one would think that Monday would give a break to those who need it. Apparently this isn’t how it works in my world. After a rough night trying to sleep (note the word trying) I woke to find a website I work with completely hacked. Luckily the ISP picked up [...]

It’s so much fun to come home from a long day away from the computer and find emails that make your smile. The first of which was about llama manure. I know. I know. I’m starting my garden and llama poo makes me happy right now. Well, in some senses of the “happy” word. However, [...]

When you publish a childrens book, maybe any genre really, your hope and dream is that the children reading it will be moved to dream bigger. To imagine.  To explore.  To find their adventure in every day life. At least I do. So when I receive emails and snail mail telling me what an impact [...]

It’s official! Ethiopia2012 is a big happy GO! I can’t even begin to communicate what is means to be privileged to have been hand picked for this trip. It’s only a small team going this time and our plans are far greater then one can even fathom! It will be amazing! But as you can imagine, going [...]

You know, it’s not often that I reshare something that I’ve stumbled upon on facebook or the internets. But today I am going to share something I found tonight. The words say:  ”I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me — [...]

From time to time I come across a recipe that is a MUST KEEP FOREVER! And this is that time. First, I am going to give credit where credit is due! Original recipe was retrieved from Smashed Peas and Carrots. If you haven’t checked out her site before, it’s a must visit. Just be aware, [...]

With 2011 coming to a close, I’m forced (quite literally) to start to wrap everything up. Not only the presents (Christmas and two birthday’s in quick succession) but all the writerly things of 2011 in preparation for 2012. In reflection, 2011 has been a completely amazing year. It was a hard year but so many [...]

It’s been a while since I vlogged (which is a video + blog) so I figured why not get the whole family involved in this one. We are talking about Dragon Bloggers contest for a Kindle Fire! You could win too! Watch! Dragon Blogger’s contest can be found at http://www.dragonblogger.com/kindle-fire-giveaway/ and there are many ways [...]