Last night, daughter #2 and I went out to look for a grad dress (an ARGH-post unto itself). And while I was out, my husband thought it would be hilarious to answer the phone with, "City Morgue. You stab em, we slab em." He thought the caller was a friend of daughter #1. It was her high school math teacher ( Read more... )

There's an interesting article in The New York Times today, about Pearl (Witherington) Cornioley, who passed away last month at the age of 93. During WWII, she parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to act as a courier between the Allies and the French Resistance, and she was the only women to become an S.O.E. network leader. The characters in my spy ( Read more... )

Your Score: Myrna Loy

You scored 19% grit, 28% wit, 33% flair, and 33% class!


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I love when a big box of books arrives at my door. In today's box:

Mistik Lake, by Martha Brooks.
Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

*and*

Lessons from a Dead Girl, by Jo Knowles/jbknowles :)

I mailed off the latest revision of my spy novel, Violins of Autumn, last week, and I can't think of a better way to spend my break than by reading these books!

I've joked for years that I have Hobbit feet...


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1. My husband got me a beautiful bike for my birthday. Yesterday, I rode for two hours, downtown to say hello to him at work and then home again. I can't believe I'm posting a camera-held-at-arm's-length photo, in which I'm wearing no makeup (unheard of! this is a one time only thing!).


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First: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the wonderful Debbi Michiko Florence/d_michiko_fSecond: My son had to build a house for a French project, to display fire safety words they'd learned. He's been working away on this house for weeks, and somehow none of us took into account that a five-story Lego mansion, complete with front and back yards and a garage might not be ( Read more... )

When Over and Over You is published in Italy on June 29th, it will be called Tu, tu e ancora tu. Here's preview of the cover:


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I love that jbknowles's Friday 10 list is becoming a weekly thing ( Read more... )

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