Recipe of the Week – Caramel Dip

I am spending the week trying to get a book in my head (NaNo starts Sunday) and trying to get the crud out of my sinuses. Still, when my neighbor brought over a huge bag of apples the other day, I had one thought: caramel.  I love caramel-dipped apples, and adore caramel on ice cream, [...]

Long Absence

Sorry for being invisible around here for so long – thanks to one heckuva virus, I’ve been sidelined since last Tuesday. The antibiotics are kicking in, though, and I’m climbing my way back out of the hole.
In even better medical news, the husband’s doctor said the magic words – complete remission. There is no trace [...]

The “Rules”

Years ago when I completed my first “professional” novel, I anxiously scoured the internet to find out how to get it published. I got a lot of advice, from split it into two books to put it on scented paper to get an editor’s attention. Seven years on, I have learned a lot, not the [...]

Recipe of the Week – Tater Tot Casserole

Notice how I started with upper-crust recipes from Let’s Dish and am heading toward more day-to-day meals? Kind of a commentary on how my life really works, I guess. I do the complicated stuff sometimes, but most of the time we have some good old standbys we go for around here. This is one of [...]

A Sign of Survival

I went out to dinner tonight. With my husband.
That may sound pretty ho-hum, and when I say we just went out and ate meatloaf and grilled chicken, it gets even more boring. But the amazing thing about it is that in the last six weeks, the only places he’s been are to doctors’ offices and [...]