I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
Tag: real life
Relay Reading: Days 1-4
I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
In which I run my mouth on someone else’s blog
I am part of the latest roundup on Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls Good Guys blog (and shush, I’m totally a good girl.) We’re talking about reading as children and how it affects us as adult readers and writers. I ran my mouth for a while (I know that shocks you) and I may expound on…
SL reading set for April 29
I’m delighted to announced that I have been selected to join the Second Life Fantasy Faire as a guest author, and will be reading an excerpt of my work on Second Life at 4 p.m. SLT (that’s 6 p.m. CST, if I calculated correctly). Fantasy Faire is a weeks-long celebration of all things fantasy in…
April 2023 linkspam
What a weird month March was! I kicked off with my much-anticipated trip to Seattle for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs convention, which I wrote about in exhaustive detail for Patreon (see links below). I also posted a great deal on social media and photography is pending, so if you’re interested, you should subscribe…
A house built with love
Now that all the relatives have been informed, I am free to share the sad news that Violet “Pat” Byrd Stribling has passed away. Grandma Pat died a few days ago, peacefully in her sleep and in the company of family. She was my mother’s stepmom and my last surviving grandparent, so the sadness I…
Helping books find a home for the cause
As most of you know, I’ve been a Relay for Life team captain for more than 15 years, raising money for the American Cancer Society. For several years, my team has organized a used-book sale at Leclaire Parkfest, a local festival celebrating the history and culture of this little village (which was swallowed up by…
Elizabeth, what are you going to do when you grow up?
Since I let it slip on the radio last week, I might as well go public. Shenanigans are afoot. Recap for those playing along at home: I left daily journalism in 2018 to pursue my masters degree in media studies while launching a freelance career. This turned out to be quite a few eggs in…