“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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It is Called Indie Publishing
My friend has written a book about her experience of going through Alzheimer Disease with a loved one. She expressed her quandary in choosing how to get the book published. She said, in so many words, that she was impatient to spend the time it took to go through the process of finding a publisher…
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Haywireflooey in Chickland
I am grateful beyond measure for last year’s wonderful and easy first experience in raising spring chicks. Yes, I had a bit of a blip with Princess Puny last year, but she soon recovered and is now a hearty girl who gives us an egg quite often every day. I had thought starting this year’s…
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New Book! Mary In Color, now available on Kindle
Two weeks since I’ve been here, and I have been busy. As I wrote in my previous post, I decided to put aside my latest book project and focus on a few other projects that have been languishing in the works. Ta-da! I finished one of those projects last week. I’m happy to report that…
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Water for Writing — My 5 Writing Practices
I was asked, once again, if I had any tips for beginning writers. In thinking of this, I realized that no matter how long we have been writing, each of us is a beginner at some point in our writer’s journey. We are always learning and relearning, as long as we are alive. Just now…
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Our Gluten-Free Chicken Adventure at One Year
We come to the first year anniversary of our adventure in raising chickens and feeding gluten-free. The line from Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie springs to mind: “We’re not dead yet.” Last year at this time we were preparing for our first ever chicks, and discovered with sizable dismay and discouragement that all commercial chicken…
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Write only what you love, and love what you write. ~ Ray Bradbury
I asked my writing friend if she had read Ray Bradbury. “Ray Bradbury? I read something by him years ago…but I don’t much like science fiction.” That was exactly what I thought for years, and I almost missed out on a delicious banquet! I read Bradbury’s book on writing, Zen and the Art of Writing,…
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