There\’s lots to celebrate today! First off, it\’s this cutie\’s birthday today, and he LOVES making a huge deal of it. 😉 So, make sure to wish him a very happy birthday! Along with Dan\’s birthday, today marks one full year of him putting up with me! We officially started dating on his birthday last […]
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Well, as promised my editor got back to me this week with my manuscript and her feedback, and I have both good news and bad news. The good news is that she genuinely liked my book, and she said my writing was very smooth and natural. She pointed out a few weak spots in my
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As many of you probably know by now, I\’m cruising at full speed towards becoming a self-published author. My editor started going through my manuscript on Tuesday, and hopefully by the middle of next week, I\’ll have her comments back to me. I\’m both extremely excited and terrified! I know there are going to be
As I was trying to decide what to write about last night, I couldn\’t land on one single thing. A lot happened this week! First off, my sister and Tanner announced that they were expecting a baby in July! They told us on Christmas, and I had to keep that secret for a whole month.
Figured it was time for a little update on my book writing journey! In the last blog post about it, I mentioned that I was waiting for feedback from a couple of beta readers before I would be about done. For those who don\’t know what beta readers are, essentially they are total strangers who
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One thing that I have always struggled with is how self-conscience I am about my weight. I have never been very overweight by any means, but I constantly compare myself to others (something I know I shouldn\’t do) and I feel bad about myself if I don\’t look a certain way. In my early years
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What a week! It was a draining couple of days for sure. There was so much going on, it was difficult to process it all. The events that unfolded in Washington DC – literally down the street from where I used to work. Woke up Tuesday morning feeling like I had been hit by a
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As we kiss 2020 goodbye, there are plenty of things I – and most of the world – wish we could leave behind. City shutdowns, quarantine, masks, and social distancing are all terms we are sick of hearing. Unfortunately, it looks like they will be staying with us in 2021 for a while, but hopefully
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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone was able to spend time with their loved ones this holiday season, even if the crowd was smaller than usual, or if it had to be virtual instead. Both sides of our family canceled Christmas this year, but my immediate family still got together and enjoyed the holiday. AND
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I am so, so pumped and I have to tell y\’all why! This week, I finished the final read through of my first novel, Sink or Swim. I sent it off to two beta readers, who have promised to return feedback to me within the next two weeks, and as long as they don\’t point
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