I am overwhelmed with tea. I feel that I need to take a weekend to sort the tea out. Thank you! This is Artha. She is our granddog. Doors Artha, bumping my elbow with her nose: Hello. I'm Artha. I've checked the doors for the 7th time. Everything is locked. Gordon: Pillow, Artha. Pillow. Artha, sits on the pillow. 10 …
A Question of Leaves
Image by Ascyrafft Adnan from Pixabay This morning I have a very serious question for you. I've been a bag tea drinker most of my life. Except for the time I lived in Russia, where tea was always loose leaf. In US, my life got busy and I switched to the bags. A few weeks ago, I bought white tea on a whim from HEB, our local grocery store. …
Damned If You Do…
Image by こうこう きちでん from Pixabay A while ago I did a blog post answering the question about writing diverse characters. Among the points that were brought up were creative description of skin color and how people find it unpleasant to be compared to food and the fact that we now add a descriptor to our characters, pointing out when someone is …
On Yarn, Unexpected Sexy Bonuses of
I know I already posted today, but this was too good not to share. Facebook keeps showing me ads for Wish, which is either Chinese Walmart or Chinese Amazon, take your pick. From what I gather, ordering from Wish is a craps shoot. You might get the item you ordered, you might get a different item, or you might get nothing at all. I haven't …
Sapphire Flames Hits the Lists
# 6 on USA Today. This is the big one - it means we had #6 bestselling book in US out of all the books for that week. #5 on NYT. #2 on Wall Street Journal. Our editor and the rest of the team at Avon sent us beautiful flowers. Thank you, guys. This was a lovely release. I meant to post all the lists last week but I was just …
US Medical Insurance or Ripping Your Hair Out
A quick primer for the non-US readers: in US a lot of small business owners like us buy our policy from ACA Exchange, which is a government site. It presents us with policies from various private insurance companies, we pick one, it lasts a year, then it expires and we have to repeat the process. The private insurance carrier assigns our policy …
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