Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

Thank you, Annette (we miss you on the blog, Annette!), for turning me on to this:

I knew it! My husband makes fun of me for striving so hard to be fair when we have more than one dog in the house–this one gets a treat, so does that one–and now I have scientific proof that I’m doing the right thing.
Check it out.

Heading out for a few nights of backpacking with the husband and the Bear (not a grizzly, as discussed in yesterday’s comments). We’re going to our favorite high mountain lake, where we scattered our previous Lab’s ashes a few years ago. We get very sentimental visiting his resting place. My husband has [...]

I’ve been sitting in our rented house in my favorite mountain town all afternoon, curled up on the couch blazing my way through the last book in the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn.
WOW.
LOVED IT. Why? Because it was so weird and wild and exciting and completely unexpected. I have no idea how Stephenie [...]

I’m still on indefinite blackout, but I read your comments from today on the last post, and yes, here I am, and I might as well tell you I’m in Colorado right now, getting ready to do a school visit on Thursday, and it was supposed to be this fun time with husband and dogs, [...]

So here’s a treat I wish I’d given myself about two years ago, but better late than never: yesterday I hired the local dog whisperer, April the Magnificent (who trained our old dog Blue), to come over and spend three hours with Bear and me, finally addressing some of those annoying mother-dog issues like [...]

Just got back from our snake-breaking class tonight, where the instructor’s motto is “We traumatize your dogs for life.”
Which is why one poor Lab who passed her final retest–known as “snake-in-a-bag”–demonstrated her relief with explosive diarrhea.
But I’m ahead of myself.
There were a dozen dogs in class, most of them Labradors, for some reason. But [...]

Other than the fact that as soon as we came down the mountain from our hike this afternoon we had to walk straight to the grocery store to buy anti-bacterial dish soap, rubber gloves, and paper towels, then ask the hotel if we could use their hose and maybe borrow a wad of rags, then [...]

A non-fiction week for me. Teaching People Teaching Dogs by Dani Weinberg because Bear and I need to talk. That special lunging thing he does every time he sees a cat is fine most times because I usually see the cat, too, and can work on my biceps by holding him back, but [...]

Talk about earning your kibble.
Thanks, Heather, for the link.
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