We adopted a dog from the pound on Easter Sunday this past spring, a long-awaited event in our family. His name at the shelter was Niner, which we couldn’t change fast enough. Wanting to stick with a similar sounding name because we had misguided notions about confusing him with a new one, we named him Reno. He’s a tall skinny pit bull mix with sad-sack eyes and a winning smile who probably has some kind of bird dog in his […]

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It’s been a long time since I’ve done a book giveaway. So here it is. Free books! Whichever books you want. The catch? You’ll have to go on Amazon.com and do a search for my name in the books section to figure out which books you want. I’ll send up to 5 books each to the first 3 people who email me. There’s also a list a few posts back of all my book titles, if you want to go […]

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The hardest thing for me about not being able to write is that I feel like I should keep sitting there at the computer, trying to tough it out. Unfortunately, this martyr’s approach rarely helps and often hurts. Sure, if you’re merely stuck, then sitting there and continuing to slog through the muck until you get to the productive writing again can be a good thing. But if you are truly experiencing the writer’s block that is usually associated with […]

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