There's something about garlic. Peeling it. Having it linger on my fingers for days after I've actually cooked with it ( Read more... )

My editor sent me "flap copy" today. Flap copy is my new favorite word, even though it's two words. I shall hyphenate it if I have to. And, in the header of the copy was a cool little jumbling of words and numbers: ON SALE: 05/08/2007. OMG! This is so exciting! There's a date! But of course when I was blow drying my hair this morning it hit me: ( Read more... )

A few tiddle squiggles ( Read more... )

I can stand staying away no longer! (Grammatically preposterous, but true ( Read more... )

I am currently maiden-in-waiting for my editorial letter that will unleash me into revision oblivion. I guess I'll have to have a final manuscript in within the next couple of months so I expect that my mothering skills (are they skills or simply survival instincts?) may fall a bit to the wayside in order to get my novel in its "final" stage ( Read more... )

I’m sorry but there should be more books about the psyche of the Las Vegas vacationer and native. This place is a case study waiting to happen ( Read more... )

I’m in a hotel room in Vegas right now and although I have the opportunity to feel repulsed by the virtual Medusa’s wig of second hand smoke clinging to my hair follicles I am opting to pass because I am, in a word, happy ( Read more... )

As February begins to chase its tail into March, I feel it an opportune time to post the YA books that I have enjoyed reading so far in 2006. And because I feel the need to be important today, I shall give my list a proper bris and snip a little name on it...thinking, thinking, thinking ( Read more... )

I hate insomnia but I kind of love being up at this hour, experiencing all the wonderful things I could be doing on a nightly basis if I didn't sleep. Watched a little Letterman, read underneath the sheets with a flashlight, opened the refrigerator in the dark and got to see the really cool effect of the light slicing out of it and illuminating ( Read more... )

Food News: I am working way too hard in the kitchen for my children. Last night I made them a lovely strata with fresh tomatoes and basil. When I set the aforementioned on the kitchen table, it was as if I had put a platter of boiled rat tails in front of them. These children are three and five, I hardly think they should have so much pull. I make ( Read more... )