New Year’s Eve 2019

Dec 31 , 2018
What is it with all the pressure for New Year’s Eve? The perfect date, the perfect dress, the perfect drink, the perfect midnight kiss, who could ever live up to all that? What [...]
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You be you, Boo-boo, and I’ll be me.

Dec 27 , 2018
I tried to be jollier than I actually felt for the family holiday get-together. I had these candy cane tights that Genevieve had helped me find; I used to love Christmas the way [...]
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Holidays and the Broken Pieces

Dec 23 , 2018
Twenty years of allergy shots and I finally have a cat. My inner five-year-old is very happy. Do we ever get over wanting our parents to approve of us? Do we ever get over wanting [...]
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Fear, Fame, and AFP

Dec 09 , 2018
My grandmother told me not to toot my own horn, which meant that I wasn’t encouraged to take too much pride in my accomplishments. She also believed that you should never enjoy [...]
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Strength and Your Amazing Generosity

Dec 01 , 2018
I’ve been under the weather for a couple of days, nothing major, but enough to distract me, so imagine my surprise when I saw how much above and beyond you guys had donated to [...]
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Giving Tuesday and Why I Chose Mary’s House of Hope

Nov 26 , 2018
My grandmother was born in 1911, and at fifteen she fell in love and married my grandfather.  It wasn’t that unusual an age to marry in the hills of Arkansas back in the day. [...]
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Fear, Bravery, and the Pikes Peak Writers Conference

Nov 25 , 2018
This is a blog about things I haven’t spoken of publicly before. Things that I was advised not to share ever, but sometimes not talking about something makes it grow larger [...]
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Monday was a heck of a week…

Nov 15 , 2018
Monday began with a dawn phone-call from Jonathon’s dad telling us that there’d be a death in the family. Jon’s aunt had been sick for a very long time so it wasn’t a [...]
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25 Years Since Guilty Pleasures Was First Published

Oct 14 , 2018
We’re celebrating twenty-five years since Guilty Pleasures was first published. It came out in time for Halloween that year, and I got to add that to all the other reasons [...]
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Deal Announcment

Sep 18 , 2018
Publishers Weekly had an exclusive on this news, so I couldn’t share it until after they published it yesterday. Hamilton Re-ups At Berkley Bestseller Laurell K. Hamilton [...]
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