Okay, the selfish part of me doesn’t want to tell you about this contest. I’d really like to be one of the winners. But you have to check out the contest she is running through the end of January. The prizes are HUGE! Check out this page, but the prizes are as follows: “1st place winner will receive a copy …

Recently, the ABA’s online ABA Journal Report asked lawyers what their greatest time waster was. I found the responses amusing. And had to agree wholeheartedly with the “winning” entry. An attorney from Michigan called the greatest time waster the motion hour that happens once a week where all the judges in the local courthouse schedule their motion hearings at the …

Today at the Writer Interrupted blog, you can check out its first carnival. There are some fantastic links to different blogs, many by editors and writers I admire.

Eric and I went to see One Night with the King today. Very good! If you’re looking for a good film to see, I recommend it. They did a great job of following the Book of Esther, and where they expanded the story, I thought it worked well. Minimal gore — other than in the opening scene. One kiss. I’m …

Boy, there are some days I wished I lived in a simpler time. Time when the most technology available was say the printing press. I’m trying to create a blog for the women’s ministry at church. Blogger is not cooperating. I helped my husband create one for the men’s ministry and thanks to router issues, that took two nights to …

Boy, there are some days I wished I lived in a simpler time. Time when the most technology available was say the printing press. I’m trying to create a blog for the women’s ministry at church. Blogger is not cooperating. I helped my husband create one for the men’s ministry and thanks to router issues, that took two nights to …

I just saw these articles and had to post them. They crack me up! A Canadian woman has won the fastest mouth award at some auctioneer conference. Can you just imagine judging that contest!?!?! And a chicken showed up at a Bloomington, Indiana city council meeting. Open the Indy Star webpage and the picture is the first thing you see. …

Last night I spent over two hours on the phone with internet tech support (EXTREMELY frustrating) after a fabulous two hours brainstorming new plots (thanks so much, gals!). If you’ve never brainstormed and played the “what if” game, you really have to try it. You just never know what great ideas will be generated and who of your characters will …

I have written about The Election by Jerome Teel before. I was personally excited to see someone writing about the intersection of law and politics. Jerome does a great job with that in this book. To me it has the feel of Tom Clancy’s political subplots or a Grisham political thriller. A lawyer is one of the main characters, but …

Make that gigantic. Out of this world. Almost impossible to wrap your mind around. The Center for Responsive Politics, a DC based non-profit, estimates that this year’s election (coming up in less than two weeks) will cost $2.6 Billion. Yep, that’s not a typo. That really is B as in Billion. I don’t know about you, but by the time …