Happy Holidays!

It’s been a busy few weeks and it’s bound to get busier as Mr. Wonderful and I leave tomorrow for the Rocky Mountains for some holiday cheer with family. We’ll be stopping in Denver briefly, then driving eight hours to Farmington, New Mexico, where my in-laws recently moved. Farmington is a bigger coal mining town [...]

Katie MacAlister – party like it’s 2009

Katie MacAlister, another wonderful SEATTLE author, has long been one of my favorite reads for her spunky characters and lol humor. One of my first romance novels was her book Men in Kilts and her Aisling Grey, Guardian, series is awesome. I adore Jim, the demon newfoundland.
Thank you to Literary Escapism for letting me know [...]

Art is Life

I’ve been reading From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Robert Olen Butler, and his description of writers as artists is so inspiring I have to share part of it with you:
You must… have the highest aspirations for yourselves as writers-the desire to create works of fiction that will [...]

The Maiden Voyage of the S.L.U.T.

Yesterday will go down in history with the opening of the Seattle South Lake Union Trolley, the first streetcar line in 25 years. Buy your tee shirt here or visit Kapow Coffee in South Lake Union when you ride. Solving all the cities transportation woes, the S.L.U.T. connects Paul Allentown with Westlake Mall, cutting what [...]

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell RUN!!!

Early this morning, braving the cold and a few lazy snowflakes, thousands of hearty Seattlites descended on downtown Seattle to participate in the 2007 Arthritis Foundation Jingle Bell 5K Run & Walk. Santa led the race in a yellow sports car (he’s a twenty-first century elf). It was a sea of red and green; hats [...]