For me one of the most complicated questions for me is, "Where are you from?" As a child I moved often and as an adult my gypsy upbringing has repeated as a pattern in my life. The chapters of my memoir Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together are divided by where I lived. I don't consider myself as having a home town. I thought it … [Read more...]
One Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday 1992 changed my life forever. After a long day at work, I joined a Super Bowl party already in progress. I started out drinking beer, moved onto consuming flaming Spanish coffees (in the plural) and returned to drinking beer when we ran out of supplies. Some of my last memories of that night are right after the beer run. Mixing … [Read more...]
Finalist of USA Best Book Awards Announced Including Puffy & Blue
Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together was a Finalist in the USA Best Book Awards for Animals/Pets: Narrative Non-Fiction. According to USA Book News, mainstream and independent titles scored top honors in the 12th Annual USA Best Book Awards including Random House, Tarcher/Penguin, HarperOne, WW Norton, Harper Collins, William … [Read more...]
Happy National Cat Day
In honor of both National Black Cat Day and National Cat Day falling in the same week I am giving away FREE Kindle versions of Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together from October 30th until November 3rd. (Wait until Amazon starts the deal on Friday the 30th or it won't be free.) If you do not have a Kindle you can download … [Read more...]
Puffy & Blue Wins Award in Readers’ Favorite Book Contest
My book Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together won bronze in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. Puffy & Blue has also won the International Book Awards and was a National Indie Excellence Award Finalist. This book has a 5 Star rating on Readers's Favorite and a 4.9 Star rating on Amazon. You can enter to win a FREE … [Read more...]
Fears Made of Pebbles or Boulders
Excerpt from Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together Puffy was a tomboy through and through. She was a great hunter and settled in quite nicely to our new home. Even though she was a medium-sized sleek black cat who was a half-Siamese mixed breed, she believed she was a black panther. Even though we fed her well, she went out … [Read more...]
In Celebration of New Experiences
I have been to a lot of business events over the years running the gamut from INC 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America, regional and national soap conferences, meetings for micro and small businesses, Amway meetings, cruises, aromatherapy events and even a bison conference, but I have never been to anything quite like BlogPaws. First let … [Read more...]
International Book Awards Winner
Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together is the winner of the narrative animal/pet category in the International Book Awards. USA Book News announced the winners and finalists of THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (IBA) on May 21, 2015. Awards were presented for titles published in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Jeffrey Keen, President and … [Read more...]
National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist
I love all things Indie. I was especially tickled to get this letter from the National Indie Excellence Awards regarding my book Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together. Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to inform you that you are a Finalist in the 9th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Your book truly embodies the … [Read more...]
Drenched Dreams
My kindergarten class was putting on the grandest of all Christmas programs that year. My mom could not sew. I can’t sew. It is a hereditary thing. I think it has more to do with lack of patience than anything. I first learned of this hereditary inability to sew when our kindergarten class put on what we thought was the largest production of Sonny … [Read more...]
Deeper Than the About Us Page
These fun icebreaker questions were asked of me as a speaker in the business track of Central Soapers Workshop in Kansas City. I haven't caught up with myself since the trip to write about all that I learned there yet. I decided to share these icebreakers for now. They are the kind of questions that would be fun on an About Us Page. What’s your … [Read more...]
