What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been doing pretty well these past couple of decades without Disneyland. This is not meant as a criticism in ANY way to those who you who frequent the 160+ acre playground/fantasyland/shopping mall, but I’m just saying that planning a trip to said place takes, [...]

Who Has Time for Chocolate with All This Grogging Going On?

First off, let me start by saying that grogging is hard work. It requires thought which requires a brain, and at the moment, I can’t say that mine is fully functioning. That, and it interferes with my chocolate-eating schedule.
Like most women, I have a lot going on. Family, kids, laundry, bills, new book coming out [...]

Who Has Time to Eat Chocolate with All That Writing Going On?!

What’s so funny is that this picture is of TWO chocolate-covered macadmia nuts, when in truth I have eaten about, oh, TWENTY in the past half hour. Maybe 21. The point is, I’m actually VERY busy writing right now, and I’m only eating this chocolate because, well, it’s there.
Yes, I bought adorable packages of chocolate-covered [...]

Book: Ain’t She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I’m no book reviewer, and I am totally on island time which means that by the time I get to a book, it’s probably been out for a while. But that’s no reason not to talk about it, which is why I’m giving my two cents on Susan Elizabeth Philipps‘ AIN’T SHE SWEET? (No, she’s [...]





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