Each year I like to blog about my favorite fiction and non fiction reads. Today is my favorite non fiction announcement and tomorrow I will do fiction. New this year will be my favorite Free Kindle read of 2011. Because most of my reads this year were books to review, that is what they will be based on today and tomorrow. Remember, my shelves are always up for view. Most [...]
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If you don’t blog, you have no idea how hard titles are for posts. I think I struck out today but I’m too tired to play. I have a debut of sorts going on today and only a select few will get to see it. Might you be one of them? I’m going to give a sneak preview of my Fall presentation schedule at my webinar room. I have book [...]
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You wouldn’t beeeelieve the confessions I could gush out today. Since I cried big crocodile tears already, I’ll go ahead and blog about something positive. I’m in love. I’ve known about CWA webinars for awhile and Noelle Mena has encouraged me from day one to give it a try. My interest was always there but I felt the timing wasn’t right. This summer I felt it [...]
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Help! Chocolate Ricecakes Don’t Taste Like a DQ Peanut Buster Parfait… by Julie Arduini on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 9:39pm Hopefully that got your attention, I appreciate you being here this summer evening. But it’s true. Chocolate rice cakes are better than the cardboard kind from my college days but still. I live half a mile away from Dairy Queen where Thursdays are $2 peanut butter buster days. [...]
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with friends who all have a passion for the orphans and gypsies of Romania. A couple of the people were there last year and took video of their experience. They visited a lot of the churches and museums throughout Europe and one of the videos was a place where one room looked like heaven’s library. The books were lined by rows and rows [...]
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I guess what I’m experiencing is a little like the phrase “Glass half full” concept. While working through the Made to Crave DVD Lysa TerKeurst takes a negative word and exchanges it for a positive one. From deprivation to empowerment, guilt to peace, that kind of thinking. She mentioned that it is a switch, a turn in thinking. We’re on our seventh snow day. You read correctly, seven. I tend [...]
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