A beloved client is sending some “mad money” for my birthday to spend on my trip Down Under when I get there. WOO HOO! Especially WOO HOO because I had to spend $100 this past weekend to get a locksmith to unlock my vehicle after it locked me out ALL BY ITSELF while […]
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Today I’m sharing the advance praise I’ve received from the beta readers of my new book STAGE COACH: My Prescription for Panicky Presenters. (in alphabetical order by last name) I finished beta reading your book this morning. It is incredible. Seriously, it helped me so much. I love the way you use your voice;
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I’ve loaded my Kindle with new-to-me books. I need reading material for the long flights to and from New Zealand that lie ahead… I’m halfway through one of them already. (Stop that, Kris!!!) When I had lunch with Judi Cooper at Olive Garden the other day, she told me about her favorite four
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I had brunch with Lisa yesterday. The only time we’re usually able to get together these days is when we shop for groceries — and even that is rarely possible — so we usually go weeks without seeing each other. She’s my best friend, so it sucks not to see her as often as
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While Lisa and I are in New Zealand, I don’t know if there will be time to blog, or even if I’ll have access to a device so I can, but I will be posting images to Facebook from time to time so you can follow our doings there. I will be taking a
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Two more people are reading my newest manuscript. I expect to hear back from them by Monday. If it passes muster with both, I may be able to publish it in a Kindle version before I leave for NZ toward the end of next week, if Lisa can finalize a cover for it that
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Among the things I’ll be packing for my two-week trip to New Zealand are several handfuls of weta “feeding dishes.” Yes, they’re plastic bottle caps.Helen told me that weta keepers are seeking bottle caps from which to feed their wetas, so I started collecting them about a month ago. I think
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I wrote a new book over the weekend. (NO AI. I never use AI to write anything!) Three beta readers have it in hand, and two of them have already given it two thumbs up, so I asked their permission to use abbreviated versions of what they said in the front of it under Advance
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On Christmas Day 1957 (or maybe 1958), “Santa Claus” surprised the Smith family with two horses, Sugar Babe and Stormy. Me on Sugar Babe in my robin’s egg blue cowboy outfit, Laurel on Stormy the morning we got horses for Christmas Jessie Haire and me on Sugar Babe, Jackie on Stormy,
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Sometime during the time we lived in Cle Elum from 1961 to 1972, I rescued and raised a little field mouse named Skippy. She looked almost exactly like the one you see above next to the headline, but she was much smaller at first and significantly darker. I called her Skippy because she
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