I've been spending the day cooking up a [Soup] storm!

Mushroom Beef Barley


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I've changed the title of my LJ - mostly as a reflection of my reflecting on the writing process.

And - also inspired by the movie Julie & Julia.


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Here's a link to the NY Time's Magazine year-end remembrances

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/

Christmas, in fact most of the month of December, has been hard for me emotionally. Ever since my brother's funeral 12/12/95 - I have gone numb almost every December. I'd just go through the motions and mostly stay home and be sad ( Read more... )

Have you been watching The Sing Off??

http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/

The Beelzebubs Voices of Lee and Nota made it to the finale

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These ladies didn't make the finale -- but I love watching them do this song!

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My Christmas present to my LJ Friends --

a collection of Christmas tunes
- by the a cappella group - Straight No Chaser

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For 12 weeks 10 of us = wonderful writers = shared our stories and writiing concerns and worked on middle grade and young adult novels ( Read more... )

The Highlights Workshop I went to last month - It's All About Character- really opened my eyes, mind, and heart to getting to know the characters in published picture books ( Read more... )

That's what I'm calling this = the massive Fall cleaning and clearing /throwing things away ( Read more... )

I've been thinking of my writing plans and resolutions now that the online writing class is over this week.

I came across this article written by Ann Patchett.

Resolved: Writing is a Jobso now I'm thinking -- Maybe [ no really, not maybe ] I need to give my own writing time and career the focus it needs - for 32 days to get a jumpstart on ( Read more... )