You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb So true. Deborah
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Jan 03
Stirred, Not Shaken
2013 was the year we were going to shake things up. A new job for hub’s meant a 400 mile move for the family complete with a new lifestyle, new neighborhood, new school, new bank, new hairstylist, new gym, and…no. We did not move, despite the fact I packed boxes, investigated schools, researched rentals—we almost …
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Sep 20
The End is only the Beginning…
This week’s been about “finishing”. Finishing All That Matters, the sequel to Everything That Matters. Finishing reviewing Beta Reader comments and typo/spelling error notes on ETM and tidying it up for submission. Finishing my “library”. Oddly enough, it is the library I am–currently–most excited about. Refuge…research area; a place to be, or be productive. How about …
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Sep 14
Celebrate Friday
Celebrate the Small Things Friday! I’ve been MIA most of the summer, busy with daughter’s wedding, multiple long road trips, and attempting to sell the house, the first of which came to a successful and oh, so wonderful conclusion–I have an awesome son-in-law!; the second plum wore me out; and the latter proved less than successful. And yet I’m …
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Aug 27
A Daughter, A Wedding, and Nieces, Oh My!
This summer was one for the record books. Numerous long-distance road trips, and helping organize, shop, prepare, and lose sleep over potential forgotten details for daughter’s wedding, along with a week-long (whee!) sleepover with my nieces the week before the wedding (they were the loveliest of flower girls) kept me hopping the last six weeks. And oh, what a blast we had! The …
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Jul 10
Priceless Tidbits
When you live in a small rural town with an even smaller library, the Internet is often extremely helpful, if only to help narrow the focus to one or two excellent resources the librarian can have brought in, or one can order online. And every now and then, you come across a priceless tidbit that requires no pre-ordering, …
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Jul 09
Live. Laugh. Love.
Live. Laugh. Love. These three words crown the French doors leading to my deck. I put them there, in plain view of the living room sofa and recliner, to remind me what’s important in life. When things get tough, as they do at times, I only need to look up: Live, Laugh, Love. And I do. Deborah …
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Jun 14
Celebrate the Small Things FRIDAY!
Short and sweet, what I’m celebrating this week: Hubby fixed the lawn mower. And the weed-whacker. And the truck’s tailgate. My cousin and his wife welcomed their first baby, a beautiful 8lb girl, on Wednesday! My yard is a colorful palette of blooming Irises, Peonies, Pansies, and other bright shrubs, the names of which I know …
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Jun 14
The Hard Way
My first novel, Everything That Matters, is in the competent hands of a BETA reader, but that does not mean I am resting on my laurels, or lounging by the pool (if I had one) sipping Electric Lemonade (mix me one?). No, I am hard at work on ETM’s sequel, All That Matters, and when …
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Jun 01
Friday…Celebrate the Small Things!
Sneaking in another Celebrate the Small Things post… What I’m celebrating this week… 1) A great weekend away last weekend to cheer on youngest at his lacrosse tournament. 2) Another showing this week, and the potential buyers are coming back next week for a second walk-through. Yippee! 3) Learned how to turn off the u/g sprinklers during …
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