Archives for “Claudia Welch”
Let me tell you how I met Lori Handeland/Austin. We were at an RWA conference in New Orleans. We were on a sight-seeing/research trip to The Oaks plantation. We started talking in the gift shop, realized she had my first agent and I had her second agent, and that my second agent had been her [...]
41 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 5:58 am.
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There’s a mission to Mars in the planning stages. The deal is this: you apply to go, it’s a 6 month trip, and it’s one way. Thousands of people have already applied for this opportunity to travel to and die on the Red Planet. The participants will be on camera the entire time since this [...]
62 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, June 3, 2013 at 5:00 am.
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I’ve had a lot of sick days in my life. I’m what used to be called “sickly.” If I’d been born in any other century I would have been one of those “died in childhood” statistics one hears so much about regarding bygone population rates. I missed so many days in high school that my [...]
65 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:04 am.
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I’m just back from Kansas City, Missouri, site of this year’s Romantic Times convention. It was such fun. The hotel was beautiful and the city lovely (love that Link system!). It snowed. Yes, in May. What can you do? Me? I brought wool socks; I was never cold. Most women were wearing sandals. They were [...]
60 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 5:53 am.
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That’s “marriage” for those of you not familiar with The Princess Bride. And, actually, even though Only Girl got married just a few days ago and marriage is much on my mind, I find myself thinking about girlfriends. First, let me happily report that the wedding day was beautiful. Nothing spilled and no one tripped. [...]
48 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 5:54 am.
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My dad killed people. No, he wasn’t a serial killer. He was a Marine in WWII and he killed men, lots of men, at close range. He killed them with bullets and he killed them with bayonets and he killed them with knives. There’s a famous quote about Henderson Field on Guadalcanal (one of my [...]
51 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 5:30 am.
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It’s been a bad week. A week ago today, one of my oldest friends, a sorority sister, died. I can’t imagine my life without her. But now my life is without her. I’m having a tough time. A few days later, my mother-in-law died. She was the kindest, most loving woman. She loved me unconditionally [...]
67 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 5:33 am.
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I start out my mornings (sometimes in the dark) looking at these steps. It’s a bit hard to tell from this picture, but it’s four steep flights that snake between houses to take you to the next street (I live in a hilly location). Once you cross that street above, there is yet another set [...]
94 Comments. Posted by Christie Ridgway on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 3:21 am.
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Only Girl is getting married! You know what that means. Wedding stuff galore. Drowning in wedding stuff, wedding decisions, wedding details. Only Girl (marrying who shall hence be known as Number Three Son, because he’s just that awesome) is having a simple wedding. Stop laughing. I mean it! Really, it’s a very simple home wedding. [...]
99 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 5:27 am.
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As with all things, the stars had to align perfectly for it to happen. First, I had spent the day before watching a marathon of Hoarders: Buried Alive. That really gets me in the mood to purge. Next, I had to find a good eraser, one that hadn’t gone hard and useless. You wouldn’t believe [...]
41 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 5:28 am.
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Diesel the Wonder Dog went to the vet this week. No dog actually likes going to the vet, much like no woman enjoys going to the gynecologist, but Diesel bore it well, was charming and polite and calm (even when they took his temperature you know where). Diesel is practically perfect in every way, as [...]
55 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 5:25 am.
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Have you noticed all the boots? Women everywhere, of all ages, are wearing boots of all types. Boots! The last time boots were this popular was in the late 60s to mid-70s. Don’t ask me how I know that. Really. I’m begging you. Anyway, Big D and I flew from NC to CA a couple [...]
77 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 4:47 am.
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I love L..A. I go back to visit every year or two and it feels like home every time. I’m just back from a 5 day trip that included: ~dinner out at a fine French restaurant in Pacific Palisades ~a raucous football party between arch rivals USC and UCLA ~a book club party revolving around [...]
51 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 5:17 am.
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I’m doing it. Well, I’m having it done to me. It seems to be working. I am suffering with a bout of vertigo, which I won’t bother to describe except to say that it’s a form of misery that I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and acupuncture coupled with chiropractic is definitely helping with it. That [...]
68 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 5:30 am.
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I don’t know why it is, but there are some phrases that I can’t forget. Phrases that have been spoken by real people in my real life (as opposed to fictional people in my creative life) and that live on in my memory long after they were first uttered. No one could have expected that [...]
83 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, October 29, 2012 at 5:42 am.
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I think there are different definitions of what it means to be high maintenance floating around out there. One woman who I just watched on What Not To Wear thought that being a high maintenance woman meant that she took time to do herself up and therefore might make people wait for her. So she [...]
68 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 5:40 am.
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There are all kinds of stress-relievers. Mine is to look at something beautiful and inspiring. I need to look at nature. Recently, Big D’s dad had a major heart attack that required a quintuple bypass, which is what I assume you call bypass surgery with five bypass sites. He collapsed in his living room, called [...]
59 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, September 17, 2012 at 5:14 am.
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When I was a teen, my parents had a tiny cottage on a lake in Massachusetts. It was my favorite place on earth. My mom took her two daughters up to the lake on the last day of school and we wouldn’t go back to ‘town’ until two days before school started. We lived in [...]
60 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 5:07 am.
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This actually happened this week. True story. It was a bright, hot August morning and Claudia’s husband was in the shower. Claudia, already showered, was at the bathroom sink, sweeping on a new blush that she still wasn’t sure she liked. Wasn’t it just a touch too pink? She took a clean blush brush and [...]
39 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 6:40 am.
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I have been a very late adapter to the iPod movement. I finally got an iPod as a Christmas gift from Number Two Son, along with a hefty iTunes gift card, and then, because he knows me so well, he “did it” all for me. You know, those techy things that you have to do [...]
57 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Monday, August 6, 2012 at 9:49 am.
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Magic Mike has a problem. The problem is that it’s a movie trying to appeal to two very different kinds of audiences: the rowdy I want to see some man candy crowd and the give me a compelling story crowd. These two different crowds choose a movie for different reasons. Magic Mike has been marketed [...]
38 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 5:54 am.
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The basic buzz was that John Carter was a hot mess and Prometheus was awesome. What utter rot. I cannot stand by silently and let this stand. So here, goddesses, is my chock-full-of-spoilers compare and contrast of both movies. Fasten your seat belts. What the movies have in common: Sci-fi genre, based on preexisting worlds—in [...]
59 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 5:23 am.
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Oh, yes. I've done this. I was in college. I was with my girlfriends. And I laughed so hard I wet my pants. And that made me, and everyone else, laugh even harder. (Why do you think the girls on the cover are sitting with their legs crossed?) I was in good company because I [...]
48 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 5:20 am.
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To be honest, and I'm always honest, when I began writing Sorority Sisters (get your copy now!), I was worried that Ms. Average Reader would have such a negative reaction to the very idea of sorority girls that she'd hate the book on sight. Thank goodness that no one on Mt. Olympus is Average, and [...]
68 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 5:47 am.
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I was in high school and college and graduate school for the entire decade of the 1970s and let me tell you, most movies and TV shows of today get it very wrong. Naturally, I’m talking about the fashions/home decor/hair styles/make-up. You know, the stuff I live for. Sorority Sisters, that wonderful book of mine [...]
67 Comments. Posted by Claudia Dain on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 5:51 am.
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