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Good Books, Good Buys: From My Keeper Shelf

by Dee Davis

Like most of my sisters, I’m on deadline at the moment, which means that I’m not doing anything much but plotting, writing, thinking about plotting and writing, and angsting about how slowly said process is progressing.   So I thought since I’m not reading at the moment (I don’t read while I write), I’d go to [...]

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Happy Labor Day!

by Kathleen O'Reilly

After having spent the weekend laboring (writing diligently), I am planning on spending today the same way. Labor Day came to be to celebrate the laborer, and in remembrance of those who had actually died due to workplace issues (1894, this was long before OSHA ever came to be). Today, most workplaces are fairly hum-dum [...]

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Question of the Week: What’s Your Reading Pleasure?

by Julia London

I had been reading a lot of angsty, dysfunctional family type books (The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand being the most recent) but won a book by Phillipa Gregory, so I am reading The White Queen and will follow it with The Red Queen.  These two books are about the War of the Roses in fifteenth [...]

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Fashion Friday: Emmy 2010

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Who is your pick for best and worst dressed at the Emmys?

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WRITER’S CORNER–WHAT AM I DOING?

by Jacquie D'Alessandro

I hate doing laundry.  I hate cleaning the kitchen.  I hate going to the supermarket.  I hate going to the dentist.  But there is one particular time when I love doing those four things I hate. When I’m on deadline.  Why?  Because basically, I’d rather be doing ANYTHING than planting my butt in the chair [...]

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Wednesday Whine: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Classic Kathleen Givens, first published on 2/11/09 Well, isn’t this fun, to have so many liars to talk about?  There’s the owner of the Peanut Corporation of America, Stewart Parnell, who refused to testify to Congress today, but whose company has been caught red-handed selling infected food.  Six hundred people made ill and nine deaths [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes!

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

So many changes right about now. The biggest is my new name (how’s THAT for a subtle reference to the fact that it’s release day for When Blood Calls by J.K. Beck?). But there’s other stuff, too. We’re selling our house (which I love, but am happy to sell because we’ve outgrown it), and we’re [...]

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And the Emmy Goes to…

by Dee Davis

So this year like every year, I watched the Emmys.  And like every year, there were shows (and actors who bring them to life) that won that I’ve never seen (we gave up pay television ages ago).  Shows I sampled and then abandoned (meaning I have no idea why they won).  Shows that won that [...]

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Ah, Texas, Picturesque Texas…

by Kathleen O'Reilly

I’m writing this from the booming metropolis of Dallas, TX, home of… well, me. On Monday, when we took off from New York at 8:30pm, the pilot announced: The temperature at DFW is a balmy 106 degrees. ACK! Coming out of the terminal was like entering a sauna, but then the next day it cooled [...]

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Capes: The Must Have for Fall

by Julia London

I was surprised to discover the clothing item that no well-dressed woman can live without this Fall season is the cape!  Super heroes are in vogue again and each and every one of us should have a selection of capes to wear with our skinny jeans.  Okay, I confess, I have a pair of skinny [...]

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The midnight bestseller

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

I’m sorry. I can’t write my blog tonight because, you see, I’m reading Mockingjay. Yes, I know I’m a day behind the rest of the world, but I had to re-read Hunger Games and Catching Fire before I could start it. And while I didn’t stand in line to buy it at midnight, I did [...]

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Dog Days of Summer

by Dee Davis

Do you remember summer as a kid?   Playing outside until the sun goes down with only brief stops at home for food at lunch and dinner?  The sound of the ice cream truck coming down the street?   In my house we had a chest of drawers by the front door (a credenza, I learned as [...]

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Walking on Jane

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Classic Kathleen Givens, first published on 12/07/97 I couldn’t do it.  Couldn’t put a foot on Jane Austen’s grave in Winchester Cathedral.  I paid my homage to one of The Whine Sisters’ favorite writers with a simple donation to the Cathedral.  I took pictures of her grave and the plaque on the wall there, but [...]

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POP CULTURE MONDAY: WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING?

by Jacquie D'Alessandro

I have to say, when we first got TiVo last year, I was skeptical. It didn’t seem as if we were addicted to THAT many shows that it was really necessary. However, I quickly fell in love with TiVo when I realized I no longer had to choose between Dancing With the Stars and House on Monday [...]

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Question of the Week: Cats or Dogs?

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Very simple this time: Are you a cat or a dog person? What, still undecided?

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Fashionable Friday: The Wire Edition

by Kathleen O'Reilly

This morning, I was browsing over the internet, looking for fashion tidbits or some newfangled style of dressing that was post-worthy, and I ended up on youtube, because you know, all the great fashions were first started on youtube, and then I found these two clips from the Wire, and I realized that some of [...]

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Oops. Ever Have One of Those Days?

by Julia London

It’s my turn to blog today.  Yesterday, I kept thinking there was something I needed to do, and I couldn’t quite think what it was.  Sherri announced she was leaving on vacation, and would we keep an eye on her posts?  I said, sure, I’ll be here, I have nothing but time.  Dee announced she [...]

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I must have this

by Julie Kenner/J.K. Beck

So there you are, sitting around, living your daily life, when you stand up, walk down the hall, and discover that your bathroom door now leads to Fort Knox. Or a fairy garden. Or a nuclear power plant. Or…well, you name it. How cool would that be? A lot cooler if the door really went [...]

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Good Buy, Good Book Tuesday: Eat, Pray, Love

by Dee Davis

Okay, so I didn’t actually read the book.  My daughter did and loved it.  So we went to see the movie this weekend.  And it was wonderful!  But now I want to eat my way through Italy (which is not a new idea to me) and go to Bali (which is totally new to me.)  [...]

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Are you a celebrity who wants to behave badly

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Classic Kathleen Givens- as published on 9/27/07 Or are you a celebrity who wants to drive irresponsibly and endanger the rest of the driving world, even get away with murder?  Have I got a place for you!  Yes, Los Angeles has now become the official Get Away with Murder and Mayhem capital of the world. [...]

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: SUMMER OR SCHOOL?

by Jacquie D'Alessandro

I love living in Georgia, but one thing I’ve never been crazy about is the fact that school starts here in early to mid-August.  Yuck!  I grew up in New York and we didn’t start school until after Labor Day.  Granted, we had to go to school until the end of June (kids get out [...]

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