After at least 15 bazillion titles I have finally settled on Minnesota Nice as the title of my memoir. According to Wikipedia Minnesota Nice is: the stereotypical behavior of people born and raised in Minnesota, to be courteous, reserved, and mild-mannered. The cultural characteristics of Minnesota nice include a polite friendliness, an aversion to confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a fuss or stand out,
It's the end of the year, the last day to be exact, so what better time to write a 2019 Year in Review post? I didn't write for my blog that much this year, and my traffic tanked because of it. I'm changing that in 2020. Still, when I did write it was usually because something big happened. Some of the big things I did
It wouldn't be the last day of the year without some kind of recap post. Thankfully, this is not that. I'm looking forward today to 2020. Okay, there might be a bit of recap - just for context. 2019 was a crazy busy year for me - I spent all kinds of time at doctors and therapists offices in addition to my full time
OMG I haven't even finished this book and I had to stop and tell you to go and buy this book now! Buy This Book Now! Seriously, go now, I'll wait. Wait, if you buy it now you won't come back. Wait a minute. Buy it after reading this which is only going to be a few more paragraphs because honestly, I want to get
This year I celebrated my 50th birthday. I knew I was going to be making some life changes, but I wasn't sure where to start, so I started reading. After nearly a year, I have this awesome list of life changing books and now I'm sharing them with you! I'm only including non-fiction books here. Most can be found in the self help section of
I'm glad I didn't see this infographic on successful books before I started writing. It's nice to see the stats of what sells when it comes to books but I don't think a book should be written because it will sell. A book should be written because it needs to be written. The story needs to be told. If it's a good story the audience
After at least 15 bazillion titles I have finally settled on Minnesota Nice as the title of my memoir. According to Wikipedia Minnesota Nice is: the stereotypical behavior of people born and raised in Minnesota, to be courteous, reserved, and mild-mannered. The cultural characteristics of Minnesota nice include a polite friendliness, an aversion to confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a fuss or stand out,
I was originally going to steal Kathy's What's That post and just put this picture up and have you guess what it was. I was going to post a smaller picture obviously but when I was taking the picture my son ridiculed me for falling back on filler that wasn't my schtick. Apologies to Kathy who does it much better. My son suggested I write
Apparently Kate Gosselin has another book coming out, it's called I Just Want You To Know. Know what? What don't we know about this woman? It seems to me she puts out a book a year. Where the hell does she find the time to write? She has eight kids for crying out loud and a deadbeat ex husband. I have two kids and two
