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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...

Christine Shuck
May 15, 20224 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
May 4, 20226 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Apr 22, 20223 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Apr 14, 20225 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Mar 30, 20226 min read


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....

Christine Shuck
Mar 22, 20224 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Mar 5, 20224 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Feb 23, 20225 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Feb 8, 20225 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Jan 18, 20226 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Jan 4, 20224 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Dec 10, 20216 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Nov 23, 20219 min read


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...

Christine Shuck
Nov 4, 20217 min read


It's Fall - Eat Soup!
It's 2 a.m. and I should be asleep. Such is the way of things. Our Take on Middle-Eastern Lentil Soup There is a fantastic restaurant in...

Christine Shuck
Oct 18, 20213 min read


Baby in House = Organizing Extravaganza
Just a few more weeks and our sweet little newborn foster son will be ready for daycare. He's growing fast and doing phenomenal. I expect...

Christine Shuck
Oct 11, 20216 min read


Take Off Your Pants - and other strange stories
Baby Brain - It's a Thing Or is that supposed to be mama brain? Heck, I don't know. I only know that this is the first writing I've done...

Christine Shuck
Sep 28, 20217 min read


Fall Is Growing On Me
Wowza! Where has the year gone?! As we move into the final quarter of 2021, an array of projects and plans align behind (and ahead) of...

Christine Shuck
Sep 13, 20219 min read


Turn the Page
It's Been EIGHT Years? Really? We just returned from a trip to San Francisco and I was shocked to realize that it had been EIGHT YEARS...

Christine Shuck
Aug 10, 20218 min read


1,500 Words Per Day, EVERY Day = Six Books Per Year
One of my biggest challenges has always been finding a system of consistent writing that works. And, despite it only being Day 9 of my...

Christine Shuck
Jul 6, 20214 min read
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