Tag: Family
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Christmas Movie Review: Arthur Christmas (2011)
It’s been Christmas movie watching time here at my house and we certainly have our favorites. Arthur Christmas is one of those movies that surprises, delights, and is just plain good. The Story Arthur is the younger of Santa’s two sons. Because he’s not in line to be the next Santa, he gets pushed around…
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Deadlines…
One of the attractive perks of being a writer is that for the most part you get to set your own hours and create your own working environment. When you are not under contract you also decide when your deadlines are. The only deadlines I have are the ones that I have imposed upon myself…
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Counting Pennies
For over a decade I’ve carried a heavy shoe box full of tubs of pennies from house to house. These were not my pennies, but my grandfathers that he had collected year after year. In his top dresser drawer he kept an empty margarine tub, Fleishman’s soft, and at the end of every day he…
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Being a Mom and a Writer
I’m a very creative person. I’m so creative, I create people. Three of them to be exact, and each enough different from the other that there is no user’s guide, no “What to Expect When…” book, that covers them all. I’m not talking about fictional characters here, although I’ve created dozens of those as well. I’m…