I recently got hooked on "Veronica Mars" due to the prep-work I did for the summer's writing conference. This week I watched the last four episodes of season 1, riveted by how they'd resolved the various storylines, and the next day I had a most interesting revelation ( Read more... )

Was waiting outside a shop in Paris last week when a young woman approached and asked if I'd like to do a marketing quiz for perfume. Ace still hadn't arrived, so I agreed, but with the caveat to the woman - in stumbling French - that I don't know a thing about perfume ( Read more... )

We spent the day in Paris on Monday and had a rare lunch at a Mexican restaurant (that's a post for another day). Affixed in the restaurant's window was a notice about a two-day festival celebrating Columbian culture, at the mairie (city hall). Free admission ( Read more... )

Have I lost the ability to sit down and concentrate? Four years into being a mom, I'm just now starting to find myself with a half-day, afternoon, or even a full day to myself ( Read more... )

Well, the calm that was August is now at an end. The city is back ( Read more... )

I've started noticing that popular entertainment characters are given different names here than in America ( Read more... )

It's not a secret that the best time to come to Paris is August because a huge chunk of Parisians quit the city for the seaside and their country homes. The city is vastly improved. Yes, a lot of boutiques are closed, you'll find fewer boulangeries, maybe the lack of air conditioning will get to you ( Read more... )

I got a lucky chance to query an editor, but it had to be in snail mail and it had to arrive in New York by August 30. So I spent three precious days refining my query, polishing my chapters, and writing a hell of a synopsis ( Read more... )

So here's the first roadblock. Of course I would hit it right off the bat. I spent all two hours of my daughter's naptime trying to set up my blog the way I want it to look, and I never did ( Read more... )

I let this blog go for awhile. Too many other things vying for my time. But "ten minute tales" aren't really that taxing ( Read more... )