Archive for September, 2008

Dogs In The Moonlight.
September 30, 2008

Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Dogs in the moonlight … except in the desert it can be dangerous. The wild animals come out at night — coyotes, bobcats, javelina, wild dogs — and the moonlight belongs to them.

Christmas
My husband brings the rescue dogs outside each morning and safely locks them in their large kennels before he [...]

The Next President? A Lefty.
September 26, 2008

This is probably the only political post I’ll ever make, but I did a double take while watching the Presidential debate tonight to see that both Barack Obama and John McCain are LEFTIES!
Since only about 7 to 10 percent of the population are lefties to start with, and me proudly being one of them (hey – I can’t snap my [...]

The Girl Next Door Series: Brave New Girl, Chapter One.
September 25, 2008

NaNoWriMo 2008 — writing BRAVE NEW GIRL.
 MINI-SYNOPSIS:
BRAVE NEW GIRL chronicles the life of Carly Marchelier, a fifteen-year-old girl who dies unexpectedly only to discover she must return to life — not as herself, but as stuck-up Kinsey Miraboo, the beautiful cheerleader next door. 
As Carly navigates life and death and the adventures in between — coming back as Kinsey [...]

All The Pretty Rescue Horses.
September 24, 2008

Hush a bye, don’t you cry
Go to sleep my little baby,

In your dreams, you will ride
All the pretty rescue horses,

Dapples and grays, sorrels and bays
All the pretty rescue horses. 

Faithful and brave, free as rain,
All the pretty rescue horses.

These horses were saved from slaughter.
(photos by Emily Murdoch)
As some of you know, I’m an advocate for slaughter horses. I [...]

Novel, Take Two.
September 22, 2008

So here I go, again, drinking the writing antidote, but gallon-sized, this time.
I read somewhere that John Grisham always starts a new book the day after he finishes the book he’s writing, and although I needed a little more time than that, off I go, again.
Most of all, I feel relieved that I’ve even come [...]