Christine Shuck
Plague Monkeys
Cough, hack, cough. Damned plague monkeys. Also known as CHILDREN. The itty bitty one, now almost 11 months, brought home some kind of...
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Christine Shuck
- Jul 15
- 9 min
Stay Cool, Baby, It's HOT Out There!
We are definitely in the dog days of summer here in Missouri. For some reason, I'm not sure why, this has actually been the easiest...
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Christine Shuck
- Jul 3
- 5 min
Adoption... and Other A Words...
After 4+ years of roller coaster ups and downs, we finally adopted our 6 1/2 year old, Angela, on Friday. There wasn't much fanfare. It...
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Christine Shuck
- Jun 21
- 7 min
If You Give An Author a Book to Read
Heck, I'm on a book buying spree these days! I've bought about half a dozen Kindle books, and I just purchased two native landscaping and...
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Christine Shuck
- Jun 14
- 3 min
Deals, Gardens, and More
Deals on ALL of My Books You read one of my books and fell in love. You must read more. All of them - twelve in total. And honestly, who...
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Christine Shuck
- Jun 7
- 6 min
End of One Thing, Beginning of Another
Endings. Beginnings. We have it all here. I was sitting on the beach in Santa Cruz. It was Friday, the 27th of May and we were nearing...
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Christine Shuck
- May 15
- 4 min
Annual Spring Party - Success!
I can't remember when we made it an annual thing. Sometime in the past nine years, since we found ourselves in our 1899 Victorian with a...
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Christine Shuck
- May 4
- 6 min
Mother Nature, You Are a Finicky Little B...
Beast, Yes, That's the Word... Question to the universe, will spring ever arrive? Or can we just expect to go straight from rain and the...
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Christine Shuck
- Apr 22
- 3 min
You Darling Beast
Winter's Child is DONE! I am so very, VERY relieved to announce that my 12th book, Winter's Child, is complete, edited, and in the...
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Christine Shuck
- Apr 14
- 5 min
Even at 51, Nearly 52, Adulting is Hard
TMI - You've Been Warned What follows is a bunch of numbers. Call it TMI, or whatever, it is what it is. My hope is that you will read...
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Christine Shuck
- Mar 30
- 6 min
Git 'Er Done, Girl!
Come Hell or High Water This is the week I will complete Winter's Child. Enough dithering around. My perfectionist side has been...
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Christine Shuck
- Mar 22
- 4 min
But First, We Step a Little Sideways
My life, like my writing, is not particularly linear in nature. There are jogs to the left and the right. Kids. Renovation projects....
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Christine Shuck
- Mar 5
- 4 min
Working In Those Twists, Living Them Too
Literary Twists I spent most of yesterday working in a major twist on Winter's Child. It had been a planned twist, but one I had put off...
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Christine Shuck
- Feb 23
- 5 min
Delays, False Spring, and...More Soup!
Delays, Delays, and More... Dang, what is it about having a third child (and briefly 4th child) in the house? Or should I blame it on...
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Christine Shuck
- Feb 8
- 5 min
Accepting Reality, Dreaming About Tomorrow
Bad News First A week ago, in the midst of being ill for the second time with a crummy cold or Covid, not sure which, I decided to shut...
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Christine Shuck
- Jan 18
- 6 min
Get Organized Stay Organized Has a New Look!
I've been busy working my way through an Amazon Ads course led by Bryan Cohen. He runs Best Page Forward, which writes blurbs and ads for...
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Christine Shuck
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Rushing Through Life a.k.a. Just Trying to Survive
I was supposed to be writing, not looking at Facebook. That said, I did manage my daily quota of 2,000 words. In fact, I managed to write...
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Christine Shuck
- Dec 10, 2021
- 6 min
Plans for 2022
Say Goodbye to 2021 I started off the year hitting it hard - a book out in December 2020, followed by one in mid-February and again in...
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Christine Shuck
- Nov 23, 2021
- 9 min
Running Down the Dream
20Booksto50k Conference in Vegas - I Found My Tribe Before I jetted off to Vegas, I tried to go through the lists of classes/seminars...
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Christine Shuck
- Nov 4, 2021
- 7 min
Children, Soup, Nesting and Vegas, Baby!
He's My Last I thought it would make me sad to say that, as if I were somehow admitting defeat. Weird, but true. But this darling little...
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