by Cyndi | Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bon appetit! As the harvest peaks, riffling through cookbooks and recipe files is a daily duty. What to do with all those tomatoes?Truth be told, I’m apt to do my recipe scanning on the computer. Earlier this summer I donated a sack of cookbooks to Goodwill. “Quick...
by Cyndi | Aug 11, 2012 | Writing, editing, reading
Cheers! All three of the runaway menopausal women in my novel are drinkers. Two of them have, or have had, legal and health issues linked to alcohol. They all experience heavier night sweats when they drink. But hot flashes don’t stop them from self-medicating...
by Cyndi | Jul 5, 2012 | books, novels, writers, writing
Phooey! Why didn’t I catch that egregious error until it was in print? As my eyes run over the page that I cannot change, the headlines, sentences and paragraphs that I have given up to the Print Publishing Gods knowing that I gave my best, the mistake jumps out at...
by Cyndi | Jun 29, 2012 | writers, writing
Bang! The door slammed shut at Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine on June 20, with staffers reportedly locked out of the Redondo Beach, California offices, unable to retrieve their personal belongings. In a June 21st e-mail, former Publisher Bob Bitchin writes: “As...
by Cyndi | Jun 19, 2012 | books, novels, writers, writing
Woof! The watchdog surveys her territory, ears pricked for the slightest sound, senses on alert. She doesn’t miss a thing. She rests and waits, oblivious to the past, completely in the moment. Soon enough there will be something to bark about: a bird, another dog, a...
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