It is well into tax-season, which means it’s time for my tax-season hobby. My husband is an accountant, so from January-April he works late hours. That means I have to find ways to entertain myself while he’s busy. Most television shows we watch together, so I can’t catch up on TV, and I read all […]
Valentine’s day has always been one of my favorite holidays. I love any excuse to spend time with my husband Kyle. We usually go out to dinner and get each other cards. It never has to be anything fancy, we just enjoy spending time together, and I love greeting cards. We’ve been married for three […]
A friend told me recently that she felt like she wasn’t ready to settle down and be ‘boring’ yet. Which, on one hand, I understand. On the other hand, I love being boring. I’m an introvert, and a homebody. I love being home. And it’s not that being at home is always boring, but some […]
Recently, my husband decided I had to watch the television show Parks and Recreation. This isn’t unusual, we’ve both made each other sit through shows one of us enjoys. I’ve made him watch the entirety of Full House (and Fuller House), Friends and the Golden Girls, so he deserves to have me watch a show […]
I’ve recently developed a problem. I ran out of room on my main bookshelf. Let me start this story by saying I’m incredibly happy and blessed to be able to have as many books as I do and to have the space for them. I’ve surpassed 500 in my basement library, which came as a […]
Once upon a time, staying up until midnight was easy. It happened almost every night, easily, that I could stay up past midnight. In fact, I preferred it that way. There’s something about doing something productive when most other people are asleep that I enjoy. It used to be the time when I wrote stories, […]
I thought for a long time about what to write for this column in honor of the new year. To be honest, I don’t celebrate New Year’s Eve or the dawn of a new year with as much vigor as others. A lot of people find it to be a time of reinvention, or a […]
Merry Christmas to you all, but also to myself because I finally published my fourth book this week. And to everyone who was asking about it, I told them fall. Dec. 19 is still, technically, fall. It is also just in time for Christmas. What actually took a long time was cover art, but I […]
As we get closer to the end of the year, I thought I’d recap some of the books I’ve read this year. Some of you may know that I keep a spreadsheet of all of my books, and when I went back and looked, I had to go back and look how many books I’ve […]
Every year, I have the great pleasure of accompanying the Brandon Fire Department and the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Brandon substation to the Oxford Meijer for Shop with a Hero. For anyone who doesn’t know, the program gives local kids an opportunity to shop with a police officer or a firefighter for Christmas gifts, and […]