Tomorrow my daughter and I are going on a ten-day juice fast. Thanks to Netflix’s assortment of documentaries, we ran across “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead,†the story of two overweight and very ill men who embarked on a journey to health. Because of my husband’s health issues, we’ve been pretty health conscious already. We […]
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I’ve always loved to fish. Ponds and lakes, rivers and creeks, I love to dangle a line and watch the bobber. But I’m crazy about fly fishing for trout. Maybe because trout are such a fickle being, changing their tastes and behavior by the hour, sometimes minute. Nobody knows why. Maybe today, this minute, trout
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It’s amazing what happens when you remove yourself from the everyday grind. All of a sudden the world is full of possibilities. We get to sit still and think instead of rushing to address the next thing on our never-ending list. We have new ideas, we get creative. I grew up always working and lining
It is one thing to read aloud at home in the privacy of your office—something I do every day to test the sound and flow of each chapter. It is a different matter to read in front of an audience. Thanks to the Writers Guild at Bloomington, I was able to introduce the first chapters
That is the question. For the longest time I refused to get involved in Twitter. Okay, I admit that I’m suspicious when the newest gadget shows up and long lines snake around Best Buy at three in the morning. The rebel in me wants to run the other way. When iPhones and pads hit the
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“The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.â€Â – Sara Gruen, Author WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Because… 1. The words don’t form the way I want them to, they refuse to fall in line and express my fleeting thoughts … at last, after massaging each word and phrase, the sentence stretches
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Okay. I finished the story. For months I spent every available and creative minute with my characters. When it was done, I had this incredible feeling of elation. My test readers insist it’s ready. The feeling of accomplishment made me smile. I was happy. But within days, the excitement diminished. I am getting restless. I
Book Title: The Game of Kings (Das Spiel der Könige) Author: Gable, Rebecca Overview Rebecca Gable’s Game of Kings (Das Spiel der Könige) details the story of the rose wars of medieval England during the latter part of the 15th century. To help the reader keep track of the interwoven families and often similar names,
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Next week I’m heading back to Germany to visit my family and reconnect with my home country. It’s become clear over the past 25 years that I must see, feel, smell my roots on a regular basis to avoid serious bouts of homesickness. We’ll bike, walk, hike, ride boats and the train, drive my father’s
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Nothing, you say. I’d like to convince you otherwise. Consider the target or should I say treasured celebrity of the fly-fisher(wo)man, the elusive trout, a delicacy that thrives in cold streams. In order to catch trout, we use a “fly,†an artificial bug offered in more colors than a rainbow (I’m thinking fish again). The
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