Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

 Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

We're on holiday vacation now, which means we can spare a little more time for enjoying some couch time together. The littlest Bryant an...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's t...

Summer is here! As I write this, I've been on summer vacation for (checks watch--remembers I don't have one and checks phone) 1....

Fellow author Andy Brokaw offers a writing prompt each week for her "Wording Wednesday," so called because the prompts are releas...

Time, it seems, has sped faster with each year of my life. Most days are so stuffed that at the end, I fall onto the sofa feeling like I...

The word retreat is a funny one. It can mean giving up the fight and running away. It can also mean a purposeful step back, a repose or refl...

I've always liked games. It's partly the game itself--the brain tease, problem-solving feeling of achievement--and partly the camara...

I've had an interesting confluence of events this week. My husband and one of my daughters are away on a trip together. My other daughte...

A traditional Thanksgiving is a lot of work. (I know: #firstworldproblems) Even in families that divide the cooking and hosting labor,...

When most folks think about spring break, they are probably thinking break in the sense of a respite and a rest. And that's definitely p...

It's that time of year again, right as summer is getting ready to turn the corner into back-to-school shopping. It's time to pack up...

This is my first week of summer vacation. As readers of this blog already know, I am a middle school Spanish teacher by day, and a novelist ...

I've mostly been reading my own work this week.  Last week, I finished book one of a historical fiction trilogy I'm working on. So t...

http://indul.ccio.co/ZP/SY/3P/138837600982013097VpQHU6v6c.jpg Summer is a quiet, calm song wafting on a gentle breeze, promising love an...

It was a rough week for me in terms of reading. I'm truly exhausted at the end of the school day from riding herd on a surging tsunami o...

The little one and I went to sign up for summer reading at our library today.  We don't need a special program to read, especially not h...