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Merry Christmas Adam!

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You know, the day before Christmas Eve! Our budget has been a bit tighter than usual this year,Â soÂ several of the kids’ presents were homemade by yours truly.Â What’s even more amazing, they turned out pretty good.Â My personal favorite may be a stack of wash cloths for our son that were personalized so they wouldn’t

Almost Christmas Snow

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As you can see from this pic, we got snow–but nothing like our neighbors to the north. And while my friendsÂ in DC were quick to exclaim over the fun we were missing, I find that I’m quite content with exactly the snow we got.Â IÂ suspect that old man winter is going to be all tuckered

Tiny Villagers

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This is Thursday am, not Wednesday, but I’m working on learning my days of the week.Â Honest.Â Expect to have them down anytime now. Lately I’m working on my bread and butter writing gigs more than my urban fantasy novel and must be missing the fun and whimsy of the fantasy writing.Â When I walked

Passing On A Laugh

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No pun intended, unless the reader is currently querying a humor novel. 😉 After testing the waters with a few queries for The Popcorn Potion, I discovered a new and fascinating obsession: that of attempting to extract from a single nondescript sentence why oh why the rejecting agent would pass on my manuscript.Â And without

Concert Cringe

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If one were ever so lucky as to find oneself amongst the audienceÂ for a jazz band school performance, I really hope that privilegedÂ individual would know better than to whistle along–especially when the whistler doesn’t know the tune!–or try to keep the kids on tempo by loudly tapping out the beat. Cause that would be really

Darlings Up For Adoption

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A favorite mantra in the writing world is that you have to ‘kill your darlings.’Â The thought process goes something like this:Â Whatever it is that you’re most attached to in your book or writing probably represents a phrase or scene in which the author took center stage, instead of the story.Â This ‘darling’ represents

The After Thanksgiving Post

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Wednesday rolled through, and I didn’t get up a post up.Â Truth is, I don’t even remember much of my Wednesday besides the feeling of being busy, and my gratitude that we only had a small grocery list. Now it’s Friday, and I’m in the mood to blog, but I can’t decide if this post

Popcorn Shells: A New Beginning

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Otherwise known as ‘the clippings on the cutting room floor after The Popcorn Potion has been through yet another round of edits.’ Today’s outtake comes from the first couple of pages, and represents a fairly dramatic redirection of my opener.Â Some of you may recognize a reference or two, and make the logical leap as

The Backyard Chicken Buffet

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This is official notice to all Hawks, Owls, Turkey Vultures, and Eagles that the Backyard Chicken Buffet is now closed. We’re down to only one chicken at this point, and fear we must ask our valued customers to find some other easy meal while we rebuild our stock. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Phone Tag Kid

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TonightÂ I was at our locel grocery store, picking up the all important cranberry juice*, when I heard a child’s voice pipe up from nearby. “Mom, where are you?” My own kids were safe at home, but once a mom, always a mom.Â My nurturing instincts kicked in and I looked around, expecting to find a

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