Weekend Inspiration

  I used to just post the words – clear and simple. They sound so profound without embellishment…but there’s more. There’s a busy life with the  hurtling ahead of intentions and hopes. This week we’re wrapped up preparing for Trouble’s 3rd birthday, watching Mr. Houston pack for a campout with his Boy Scout troop, listening to the discussion of a new Charter School thankfully closer to home but possibly harder to get into. Weighing, measureing…celebrating. A thousand thoughts come screaming by while in an ordinary day. The ones that stick out remind me of what life is all about and I grasp onto them, Pin them on my wall and think about what they mean and why they stood out to me. These words and many others have been...

The Twist

Remember how I said I only get amazing ideas when I can’t write them down? It happens when I’m driving kids to and from school while listening to music, it happens in the shower, it happens when I should be sleeping. You get the idea.   The other day I was brainstorming “the twist” –  the one that I needed to throw everything back up into the air in my regency romance – the one that has you gripping the pages of your book in utter desperation to find out what in the world is going to happen. I was in the shower, thinking through the plot lines I’d drawn in my head when it came to me clear and simple. Anyway, I had it. I clung to it so I wouldn’t forget how it all works together while hurrying to my computer. I wrote up a query to shoot off to one of...

Run For Your Life {Short Story}

This is a short I did for a competition. It touches on a subject I have seen shades of in too many lives. I just want to say this. If you know someone who is struggling with any kind of domestic abuse, your kindness, confidence and listening ear could be the drop of goodness that turns the tide in their self confidence and gives them courage to run for their lives. If YOU are that person, there is help and hope…ALWAYS. Here are a couple of resources (please use a safe computer – libraries are great - to explore these options!): Safe Nest 646-4981 & 1-800-486-7282 Domestic Abuse Resources Run For Your Life It all started with a word. Written in block letters. Black ink pressed into nondescript white paper. That word was enough to break open the...

Weekend Inspiration

Freeze

Let’s be honest. I have a problem. (Why does this not surprise anyone?  ) When I don’t know how I want to proceed, I usually freeze. In October I went to an amazing conference for bloggers and the news was intense, interesting, deliberate. And I froze. Because as fabulous as the information was, I was processing from a different perspective than ever before. In my past lives I’ve been a crafty blogger, spinning off designs and recipes with my dear friend Heather of WhipperBerry. It was a lot of fun - but always in the back of my mind, I was a writer: Secretly seeking Christene Houston…{the author}. When the time came and my book was out, I was blogging like it was business. I posted every. single. day. I wrote in advance, two weeks at a time. I snatched up...

Winner, Winner!!

We have a WINNER!! Jeanna Bohanon is our Valentine GIVEAWAY winner!! Thanks to all who entered! Be watching for more fun giveaways!