Writers with Toddlers: Creating amid Chaos
Here’s how five brilliant, funny writers manage to write with toddlers (or toddlers plus).
exclamations in celebration of my 200th post!
(Apologies in advance to exclamation point haters – I know you’re out there! Please make an exception just this once, for I can find no other punctuation to adequately express my excited state!) Zoiks! 200 posts: That’s a lot of navel gazing, over-sharing, and doling out of pretend advice. […]
titles of the last ten posts I haven’t had time to write and probably never will
1. The Joys of Motherhood Mitigated not Insignificantly by the Fears of Motherhood 2. How the Super-loud Clicking, Clanking and Clonking of our Baseboard Heating is Killing Me Not-so-Softly Despite 64,000 Attempts at Quieting It 3. The Spreading Crop of Grey Hair on the Right Side of My Head that […]
what does it take to become an amazon bestseller?
So what does it take to become an Amazon Bestseller? Answer: a lot of great friends, kind-hearted acquaintances and supportive blog readers! Wow – on Wednesday, the day it launched, my new humor book, The Homeowner’s Guide to Greatness, became a bestseller in the categories of “Humor” and “Crafts, Hobbies […]
this homeowner’s guide will change your life
Top Ten Reasons to purchase The Homeowner’s Guide to Greatness on Amazon TODAY: 1. Kirkus Reviews calls it, “An amusing response to the woes of homeownership sure to be enjoyed by anyone who’s ever taken out a mortgage.” 2. Pig Pen from the Peanuts Gang gives it two thumbs up, […]
let the sun shine in
Thank you to Tori @ The Ramblings for awarding me with the prestigious Sunshine Blogger Award – her blog is ha!-larious, so I am of course quite honored. How this works is that I have to answer 11 of her questions, then pass on 11 of my own questions to […]
how to celebrate your blog-iversary
I am happy to announce that today is the home tome’s one year blog-iversary. Though I first started blogging about five years ago on other topics (thank you to those of you who have been with me from the beginning), this landmark is feeling extra special. I am having a […]
on the subject of eggs…
We’ve got eggs on the brain here at the home tome. And not just because my own eggs are rapidly aging, declining, disappearing and/or shriveling up into tiny little Yodas. Feel the force around you… Anyway! We also have eggs on the brain because of Easter and this funky grey […]
what do your pinterest boards say about you?
Rejoice! There’s a new way to waste time on the internet! Pinterest. If you haven’t heard of it yet, you have obviously been sleeping under a rock. (And I mean no disrespect by this – a rock can be a perfectly cozy and peaceful shelter.) Pinterest is a virtual bulletin […]
spam: not just canned ham
One of the great things about blogging is getting clever, pithy, informative, and generally supportive comments from kind readers. On the other hand, one of the weird things about blogging is getting spam, in other words, fake comments generated by…well, I don’t know exactly who generates spam – I think […]
the problem with relaxation
Wow, I have just come off some serious R&R&R&R. (Rest, Relaxation, Recuperation, and Ridiculous amounts of food.) And while it has been one of the more wonderful experiences of my life, and I highly recommend it, taking a break from your usually-busy life does come at a price. For example: […]
hats off to bye bye brooklyn
Look what we got from a fellow blogger! Last May, I discovered an excellent blog called, Bye Bye brooklyn, written by Brooklynites Leena and Bradley, who bought a 130 year old house in rural Pennsylvania. They are in the process of fixing it up themselves and documenting it every step […]
Forget SEO: how about CBO and RMO?
These days, here in the blogging world, you hear a lot about Search Engine Optimization a.k.a. SEO, which is basically lots of ways of making your site more visible on Google and driving traffic (readers) your way. As far as I can tell, the goal is to “own” certain phrases […]
sick computer
I am sorry to report (from Rob’s laptop) that my computer is in the hospital. She began to behave strangely earlier this week. After she seized up a few times and experienced a frightening blackout, we rushed her into the ER. Despite several surgeries, her condition has not yet improved. […]
mushroom whisperer
(Pinkmottle Woodwax/Hygrophorus Russula?) As I may have also exclaimed in my last post, Happy National Mushroom Month! Today, I will celebrate by sharing the following tale. It is a tragedy containing a very important lesson… She’s on her way home from running errands around Nyack when she glances to her […]
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