Archives for September, 2012

For Refreshment Only Sundays takes a closer look at …

Dennis Quaid! Did you know that he’s related to another Hollywood legend, one from days of yore? Yes, Dennis is a relative of Gene Autry. In addition to acting, Dennis has his pilot’s license, is a five-handicap golfer (aka a don’t-bet-against-him golfer), and plays in a band called The Sharks. All of that talent and [...]

38 Comments. Posted by on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 4:48 am.

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Title Mash Up for Fun Contest Saturday

Has fall arrived in your neck of the woods yet? Leaves are turning beautiful reds and golds on Mt Oly and the Goddesses are wanting to celebrate this glorious time of year with Fun Contest Saturday! Enter by mashing up the four titles below. You can use words from all four books or just two [...]

80 Comments. Posted by on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 4:35 am.

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But I Don’t Get Sick

I really don’t.  Sometimes, I ask my gynecologist questions outside her area of expertise, and she says, “You have to get a primary care physician.”  But I really don’t.  I only go to the doctor once a year for the girl stuff.  If I get a cold, I ride it out.  I can’t remember the [...]

87 Comments. Posted by on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 3:47 am.

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Shining Through

There are certain artists who shine through.  No matter what they’re doing, there’s that certain something that  makes them recognizable to others who know them well. For instance, Stephen King wrote several books as Richard Bachman.  A lot of readers read the Bachman books and saw Steve shining through. I’ve read both Nora Roberts and [...]

98 Comments. Posted by on Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 2:51 am.

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A Guide to the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite (Cranky) Romance Authors (Of Which I Hope I Am One) Part Two.

The following is Part II of A Guide to the Care And Feeding of Your Favorite Romance Authors. Part I was published last week. WHAT DO YOU FEED A ROMANCE WRITER? Romance authors (all authors, in fact) – face The Battle of the Bulge. I’m not talking WW II here, but the REAL Bulge, the [...]

78 Comments. Posted by on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4:42 am.

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My New Friend

For several months now I have been the proud owner of an iphone. I really splurged and got the fancy one with Siri and all that other jazz. Actually I was going to get one that was two generations old, but DH insisted I go for top of the line (which last week became obsolete [...]

69 Comments. Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 3:38 am.

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Do You Want Some Wine with that Cheese?

For the past couple of months, I’ve been getting boyfriends. Well, they’re trying, anyway. On Facebook. About two a week. The messages are all basically the same. In broken English, they say, “Hello, beautiful. I see your profile online, and you are like sunshine. I am looking for a lady to share with my life, [...]

57 Comments. Posted by on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 4:04 am.

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For Refreshment Only Sunday (FROS) asks the age old question: WHY DO MEN LOOK BETTER AS THEY GET OLDER?

They do, too. And it’s grossly unfair. Take Paul Newman, for instance. Hot while younger, RAGING hot when he’d matured. Check out for yourself: ***pant, pant*** Ah, those eyes. And then there’s George Clooney. As he ages, he just keeps on hitting new highs on the FROS Hunk-o-meter. All together now — NOM NOM NOM! [...]

36 Comments. Posted by on Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 5:23 am.

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Caption This! Edmund Blair Leighton style

Let’s have some fun today! If you were eavesdropping on this scene, what do you think you would overhear? (and isn’t her ensemble gorgeous?!?) Have a lovely Saturday!

20 Comments. Posted by on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 4:35 am.

Filed under Goddess Grins.

Fun and Games

My family has always been big on games.  Card games.  Board games.  Head games.  Packer games.  Brewers games.  Little league, basketball, pee wee football.  You get the drill.  Games, games, games.  Wheee. As a child, one of my favorite games was SORRY.  Maybe because my grandma would play this with me whenever I asked.  And [...]

50 Comments. Posted by on Friday, September 21, 2012 at 2:03 am.

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In Which I Explore How Doing Housework is Like Getting a Bikini Wax & GIVEAWAY!

I wrote that title because I wanted to blog about housework but thought the idea needed a sexy hook (wait, is getting a bikini wax sexy? No.). Then I started to really ruminate on the comparison and I found the two activities actually do have a lot in common. Here’s what I mean. 1. Nobody [...]

97 Comments. Posted by on Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 9:25 am.

Filed under Christie Ridgway, When Goddesses Fall To Earth.

The Starbucks Diet

Finally, I thought when I heard about this, a diet I could embrace! A lady claims to have lost 85 pounds eating only at Starbucks. Holy Shades of Jared Fogle and Subway! This sounded good to me, since I go there every day anyway. But then I read what she had for breakfast (oatmeal and [...]

98 Comments. Posted by on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 4:22 am.

Filed under My Life As A Plebe, Sabrina Jeffries, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

A Guide to the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite (Cranky) Romance Authors (of which I hope I am one), PART I.

Fans always want to know the intricate secrets of The Writing Life, so a few years ago, I put together A Guide to the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite (Cranky) Romance Author (of which I hope I am one). This little guide answers basic questions and gives readers a glimpse into the Inner Sanctum [...]

90 Comments. Posted by on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 5:45 am.

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When Times Get Tough . . .

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 on Monday, September 17, 2012 at 5:14 am.

Filed under Claudia Dain, Claudia Welch, When Goddesses Fall To Earth, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

FROS (For Refreshment Only Sunday) has AN INSPIRATION!

As the weekly Purveyor of All Things FROS – the PAT FROS, as it were – I get to spend hours (yes, HOURS) looking for pictures to inspire your FROS addiction. On occasion, I find a few pictures that also inspire my writing. And this, m’dears, is one of them. Meet the inspiration for my [...]

47 Comments. Posted by on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 4:57 am.

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One year anniversary

A year ago this week, I adopted my canine companion, Shadow. We have spent the last 12 months getting to know one another, developing patterns and routines and learning how to co-habitate with one another (and Jack, my longtime feline companion.) So far, we have done pretty well. I have learned that Shadow likes to [...]

33 Comments. Posted by on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 4:35 am.

Filed under My Life As A Plebe.

Truth or Myth

It never ceases to amaze me the many things that lodge in our collective unconscious that simply aren’t true. We just like them, so we keep repeating them over and over. Recently, I found some of these myths, one of which my stickler-for-the-truth Trivia Superman husband told me and was shocked to learn wasn’t true. [...]

65 Comments. Posted by on Friday, September 14, 2012 at 2:50 am.

Filed under My Life As A Plebe, Sabrina Jeffries, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Preferences.

I was just wondering . . . which do you prefer? 1. New iPhone 5, Droid, or (fill in blank)? 2. Mayo or Miracle Whip? 3. Go to the movies or watch the DVD at home? 4. Morning Person or Night Owl? 5. Dark Chocolate or Milk Chocolate? 6. Windows PC or Mac? 7. Paperbacks [...]

144 Comments. Posted by on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 4:49 am.

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The End of Summer

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 on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 5:07 am.

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Can Flying Get More Miserable? It Seems So

I hate flying. No, let me correct that. I love actually flying.  I just hate everything that flying entails now. I hate the airports and their lines. I hate the long concourses that go on for miles. They just keep adding on to them, stringing them out in either direction. Whoever designs them sits there [...]

87 Comments. Posted by on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 3:27 am.

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You Ate a What?

We’ve all heard of vegetarians and vegans, gluton-freers and the dairy-less. Well, my friends, I am an anti-dangerian. Don’t laugh. Aside from the whole endangered species thing, and the fact that I love animals of all (okay, most) kinds, this is a blog about hypothetical meals. For instance, I would never really eat a baby [...]

75 Comments. Posted by on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 4:36 am.

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FROS goes to the movies

Let’s all grab some popcorn and a soda and sit back for a bit to enjoy the gifts of the silver screen.We bring you the FROS Film Festival! For those into classic films, we have a special showing of Cary Grant films.   In theater two, we have Sean Connery as James Bond. For those [...]

18 Comments. Posted by on Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 10:56 am.

Filed under Goddess Eye Candy.

This isn’t your typical headwear.

What do you think is the story behind this photo? It’s time for Caption This on Mt Oly!

39 Comments. Posted by on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 4:35 am.

Filed under Goddess Grins.

The magic of bread

First and foremost; thank you, great Goddesses, for inviting me to spend the day with you and your fellow goddesses!  What a wonderful group of like-minded people you’ve gathered in such a unique forum.  Again, thank you for including me. So, let me begin by saying that I bake bread for therapy when I’m writing.  [...]

74 Comments. Posted by on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 4:35 am.

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Hi, I’m The New Girl!

Cute shoes from zulily.com Hey, it’s me, The New Girl! I’ve got on my brand new shoes and slung over my shoulders is my new backpack (baby pink, with rhinestone decorations) and I’m wearing the dress my mom just finished sewing for me yesterday which is a little scratchy and an inch or more too [...]

130 Comments. Posted by on Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 3:13 am.

Filed under Christie Ridgway, Uncategorized.