reading time: 3 minutes Saturday 9: Mairzy Doats (1944) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1. While today this is considered a children’s song, “Mairzy Doats” was a #1 hit and a staple on radio stations in 1944. Do you know any of today’s most popular songs? (Here’s this week’s Hot 100.) I […]
reading time: < 1 minute play along here 1. What’s got you feeling chipper these days? The book I’m writing is flowing from brain to Scrivener really well, which makes me very happy. 2. About what did you decide to let the chips fall where they may? It wasn’t recent, but there was a time when I had […]
reading time: < 1 minute I love music, and I LOVE a good cover song. Here are some of my faves, in no particular order 1. The Sound of Silence by Disturbed OG artist: Simon & Garfunkel (1965) 2. The Unforgiven by Algar the Bard OG artist: Metallica (1991) 3. Blister in the Sun by […]
reading time: 2 minutes 1. July 5th is National Hawaii Day…have you ever been to Hawaii? Any desire to visit or make a return trip? Pineapple, mango, or guava…what’s your pleasure? I live in Hawai’i, on the island of O’ahu. I lived here in the mid-1990s and it took twenty years to get back. […]
reading time: < 1 minute click the image above to play 1. Tell us about your blog. When did you start blogging? I started blogging in 2001, pre-Wordpress. That was back in a day when it was still a handcoded blog. It was “Kiki’s Garden Grove,” a name that seems dumb now. Then for years […]
reading time: < 1 minute This week’s questions are stolen from Wattpad. 1. 3 things I love reading/writing my family the beach 2. Last song I listened to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica 3. Turn offs intolerance bullies willful ignorance close-mindedness rudeness liars 4. What color underwear are you wearing right now? teal 5. How many […]
reading time: < 1 minute play along here 1. For what ability do you seem to have a natural gift? I’m super not great at answering questions like this. It always feels like bragging. Which also explains why I hate the self-marketing aspect of writing novels as a career. But… I would say I have […]
reading time: 3 minutes I do a lot of research for my novels, and I am fairly certain that some of my searches have had to trip something somewhere. Not just the content of my searches, although that too, but the wide variety. But bizarre research is par for the course as a multigenre […]
reading time: 2 minutes 1. It’s been said the best things in life are free…are they? What are some of those things? I think most things come with a cost, whether big or small. The cost may not be to you but to others. Nor is cost solely monetary. I was going to put libraries on […]
reading time: < 1 minute click the image above to play 1. Do you have an actor or actress whose movies you hate to miss? “Hate to miss” might be a little strong, but there are some actors or actresses I really enjoy. I love Jensen Ackles, Theo James, Sam Rockwell, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, […]