The Making of Jeanne St. James’s Double Dare Book Cover
I spent the weekend teaching myself new skills, like putting together a video showing how I design a book cover. I’m hoping this is the first of many. Share this post:
Life Happened
I haven’t blogged in two months! I meant to, but my schedule exploded. I suddenly had more hours at the day job. My social life took on another life of its own. Hiking scrapes, hardware failures, taxes, birthdays, falls from planes, sailboat tours, out-of-town family visits, and more love than I could imagine — in a nutshell, life happened. This time last year was an explosion of events, too, but back then it heralded a not-so-great year. This year, the…
Laid Him on the Green
Back in the day, I wrote a lot about my mondegreens. Nothing much has changed about my tendency to mishear people; I still very much get what people say wrong at the most inopportune moments. A couple weeks ago, while out to lunch with someone, he mentioned his friends’ addresses in relation to whatever it was that we were discussing. I looked blank for a moment and tried to make some sense of what he just said, so I asked,…
Couples Facebook Meme
Silly memes pop up on Facebook every now and then — the copy and paste kind that encourages people to answer a bunch of questions revealing more about themselves or whatever. One popped up recently for Valentine’s Day, and naturally, it’s designed for couples. I decided to participate this time, and now I’m sharing it on this blog. Here is what I posted: In honor of Valentine’s Day, all married, engaged or dating couples: Make this your status and answer…
STEM
Some weeks ago I saw the movie Hidden Figures, which is the story about three black women who worked as computers for NASA in the 1960s. If this movie had existed when I was a little girl, I think I might have chosen a different career path. I was one of those smart ones. I always did really well in the state tests, and I did better in math than I did in English. My teachers in elementary school kept…