Wow, you learn something new every day. Check out these two posts from best-selling author Tess Gerritsen.
Maybe this shows I’m not ambitious enough, but I would rather have a calm, happy life than be this “successful.”
Your take?
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Hi! Happy Friday! Why are we so happy? Because the demolition expert is taking the day off! Because I’m going out of town to do a school visit! I’m so happy I could spit!
My nice thing for the week? Ordering a bunch of books, sitting down and reading them [...]
It’s possible that at the end of watching Lost just now, when it was during the previews for next week, the phone rang. And it’s possible that I shouted into the phone, “Hold on! Previews!” And that the voice on the other end would not hold on, but insisted on saying, “I [...]
Sorry I’ve been a little AWOL, but let me give you a little perspective: I used to think the absolute worst thing to be going on in my house was when the piano tuner showed up and kept playing the same note over and over and OVER again, soft, then loud, then louder–you get [...]
Hey, I read a book! Two, in fact! What’s that like?
Seriously, after too long without time to sit down and read, it feels SO good to spend a week or two catching up on books and magazines. Now I remember why they’re so popular.
This was a non-fiction week for me, with I [...]
Are any of the rest of you having this problem? I have a HUGE To Be Read pile, stacked high with all the books I’ve meant to get to for the past two or three years, and yet this morning I just ordered seven new books.
Is this another case of the new shiny thing [...]
I ask you, one and all, why is so hard to say no?
I can do it at a distance–either after I’ve had the chance to think something over, or sometimes right away if it’s by e-mail–but face-to-face or in a phone conversation, my head says no but my mouth says yes.
Because I hate to disappoint [...]