One Cup of Peace. Mix with Happiness.

Can you tell I’ve been madly baking cookies, cakes, and pannettone since I got back from Europe?  I’ve got baking on the brain.  (And only eaten so many sugar cookies twice that I’ve felt sick to my stomach.  You’d thing I was 5 and not on the other side of thirty.)
Before I sink into another [...]

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A Tour of Europe By Toilet

I probably should have known. My obsession with bathroom remodeling on HGTV is a big, blinking neon sign. I’ve got a thing for bathrooms. The luxurious, the innovative, the unusual.
The borderline dangerous but functional (future post warning).
While the past few weeks have been all about planning my sightseeing through Belgium and Paris, [...]

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Flying With Drugs and Turbulence

I know you’re supposed to sleep on a red eye, especially over the Atlantic, so you can be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on the other side in the “morning”. I know it shouldn’t have mattered that I could pick a window seat. It was pitch black outside…what was I going to see?
I selected [...]

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Igniting the Keyboard, Finding Your Cheat

Or chasing down a muse and tying her to the chair.
Personally, I’m not big on the muse concept.  The whole depending on another entity to bestow inspiration (or take it away).  I can’t depend on me.  Throw a flighty, temperamental, imaginary partner in the mix and nothing would ever get written in my office.
I’m much [...]

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NaNoWrimo Fail: Sobbing in My Cereal

Okay, I’m not actually sobbing in my cereal. Crying gives me a headache, and I avoid headaches at all costs, but that doesn’t mean I’m not totally shame-faced about not even eeking out a measly 15,000 words during November.
I’m crying on the inside. I swear. As I bop up and down in [...]

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