Archives for “Taming an Impossible Rogue”

Whenever my nephew plays a video game and has to choose a name to go by, he picks “Viper”. When he had the opportunity to design a character (I don’t let him play “Dragon Age”, but I do let him design people on there), he chose a butch haircut, a big Tom Selleck moustache, a [...]


I begin this blog by admitting that I am not by any means a purse fashionista. I couldn’t tell a Gucci bag from a Guffi one. For me, a purse has one purpose; carrying the stuff you can’t bear to leave at home. Recently I purchased a new purse with one thought in mind – [...]


I spend a lot of time reading the first lines of books. It’s commonly believed that a writer has three paragraphs to either catch up a reader, to make them want to read the entire story, or to lose them forever. I think it’s less. I think a writer has one paragraph, or even only [...]