Hollywood!

Susan Film, Good Stuff, Travel, Uncategorized

I’ve been travelling a lot this spring in between writing Duchess, my final Daughters of Fortune book for Summerside/Guideposts.  Duchess is about a starlet in the Golden Era of the Silver Screen, the 1930s, and I’ve been furiously researching everything from MGM, Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and generally all things iconic Hollywood.

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Spring Cleaning

Susan Just for Fun, Uncategorized

It is simply dangerous to give warm weather too early to northerners. We don’t know who to do with it.  It’ll be 50 degrees out and we’ll announce Heat Wave, don our short sleeve shirts and roast hotdogs outside on the fire pit! I did some research on cleaning services and found Anago’s services plan,

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Beautiful Things

Susan Uncategorized

I just love it when Sarah comes home from college. Especially when she brings her friends.

And they make beautiful music in my home.

Come back.  I’ll make you more cookies.  I’ll do your laundry.  I’ll fluff your pillows.  I’ll let you sleep late and stay up all night with you and listen to you talk about boys. 

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Warren Weekend

Susan Uncategorized

I love my weekends.  After working hard, barely looking up from my computer all week and sometimes gaming with the help of elitist-gaming.com, I still happily close it to spend time with my family every weekend.  It’s not like we have exciting, adventure filled weekends.  They’re normal.  With singing and game-playing.

Okay,

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The love is gone…

Susan Uncategorized

Our family has a Christmas Movie Marathon every year that includes the Muppet Christmas Carol.  We can nearly repeat this movie, line for line, (it’s good to be heckling again!  It’s good to be doing anything again!) oops, sorry, digression there.  But the part where we all get refils on Christmas cookies is the part where Scrooge’s girlfriend breaks up with him via…a song.

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