
Posted Jun 12 2011 in author, chocolate, Chocolate Sunday, dessert, Miscellany, Patty Blount, sex, YA
While searching for more chocolate treats, I stumbled on this entertaining story and concluded God CAN’T possibly be female or that story would be biological fact. Men and women would both be happy, divorce rates would plummet, Clinton would be exonerated, wars would cease, peace on Earth would – finally –reign. What is it about […]
Read More...Posted Jun 8 2011 in author, blood, Dracula, fiction, legends, Patty Blount, romance, teens, Twilight, vampires, Vlad, YA
Since Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt donned fangs for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, I’ve had a weird attraction to all things vampyre. I’m totally Team Edward, I can’t wait to do Bad Things with Bill Compton and Eric Northman, I drool at Damon Salvatore and just wanted to give poor heart-broken Angel a […]
Read More...Posted Jun 5 2011 in author, chocolate, Chocolate Sunday, diet, fiction, Miscellany, Patty Blount
It’s Chocolate Sunday again, but I have no recipes to share. I am dieting. *cries* I hate dieting. I have been dieting since 2001. I never had a weight problem. I was one of those people who could anything and not have to worry. When I had my children, I gained about forty pounds with […]
Read More...Posted Jun 3 2011 in author, Miscellany, Patty Blount, satire, summer jobs, teens, YA
Dear Summer Season Employer, You’re a busy manager and as the summer begins, I know you won’t let things like gasoline at four-dollars-a-gallon prevent this season from being your best ever. Your business may teeter on the brink of closure, and sure, you’re hip-deep in employment applications from every unemployed able-bodied person in a fifty-mile […]
Read More...Posted May 30 2011 in author, chuck wendig, dad, Miscellany, Patty Blount
It’s November. My cell phone rings and I scowl at it. It’s a busy morning with conflicting deadlines on multiple priorities all falling to shit simultaneously and I think, don’t answer. But I do. “Trish. It’s… Dad.” I knew who it was. He’s the only person in my life who calls me Trish. My scowl […]
Read More...Posted May 29 2011 in author, chocolate, chocolate bar, Chocolate Sunday, Cocoa Bar, dessert, Miscellany, Patty Blount, YA
Author pal Trisha Leigh was in New York last week and sent me this picture with one word in the accompanying message: Trifecta! Trisha has no idea what fun I’ve had with this picture. Cocoa Bar is located in Brooklyn. Oh, I already Mapquested directions and have been hinting to the family that they […]
Read More...Posted May 19 2011 in author, book club, Book Hungry, dogs, Golden Retriever, Patty Blount, SAR, search and rescue, weimariner, What I'm Reading
When I was about sixteen, neighbors who didn’t know they were having twins welcomed two newborns home. I, of course, tripped over myself in my zeal to baby-sit. The new parents were shell-shocked for the first few weeks with buying two of everything, but one thing they did NOT have to worry about was their […]
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