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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


Swerve, Adapt, Continue
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” Uh huh. How often does this happen to you? It feels like it happens on a...

Christine Shuck
Jun 20, 20213 min read


Dealing With Imposter Syndrome
I'm baaack! Did you miss me? Let me tell you, I definitely missed me. Even if me was right here the whole time. I missed...writing. I...

Christine Shuck
Jun 3, 20215 min read


Eight Years in the Northeast
Most of the time, we are so wrapped up in looking forward, that we forget to look back. And while G581: Earth is on hold until our big...

Christine Shuck
May 3, 20214 min read


Spring and All of Those Spinning Plates
Fairly Fair Weather For years, I wrote in a blog called The Deadly Nightshade. Don't bother looking for it, it no longer exists thanks to...

Christine Shuck
Mar 23, 20214 min read


94% Done With Smoke and Steel
Progress, Despite Myself Ah cha cha cha! I finished the chapter Rabbit Hole today and added the very last paragraphs to Where You Go, I...

Christine Shuck
Feb 19, 20213 min read


Eat Soup, Stay Inside
Baby, it's cold out. Damn cold. If you are somewhere warm, well, move along because this post is all about freezing cold temps and...

Christine Shuck
Feb 13, 20212 min read


Sharpening My Focus
I've written 2,206 words so far today in my current book project, Smoke and Steel. I hope to push it up to 2,500 words for the day, but...

Christine Shuck
Jan 21, 20214 min read


Losses, Gains, and Year to Come
She's Still Here...For Now Fostering children is not an easy task. Early on, when we were still starry-eyed at the prospect, my husband...

Christine Shuck
Jan 17, 20217 min read


Moving on With Hopes and Dreams
Wowza, has 2020 been a year or what? The highs and lows have been excruciating at times and so much has happened. I would like to take a...

Christine Shuck
Dec 28, 202011 min read


Ouch!
Cue the hurt back, laid up in bed memes. In an attempt to add another spinning plate to my daily regimen - that of an hour of walking on...

Christine Shuck
Dec 16, 20202 min read


Running Down Those Goals
First Things First My newest book is out! A couple of months ago, I was feeling rather down in the dumps because I hadn't finished a book...

Christine Shuck
Dec 2, 20204 min read


Git 'Er Done, Girl...
Bringing it Wide I'm working on getting a few "to do's" done and man, are they a time suck! IngramSpark for Hardcovers IngramSpark, from...

Christine Shuck
Nov 9, 20205 min read


How the Artist's Way Led Me to Buy a Pool Table
She Dreams of Shooting Pool Life is weird. No really, it's super-weird. I started out the day much like any other day and somehow, at the...

Christine Shuck
Oct 29, 20205 min read


3 a.m. - The World is Quiet, My Mind However...
Holy Toledo, folks! I started writing this and then was distracted by the newsflash that COVID has struck the White House. This is really...

Christine Shuck
Oct 2, 20205 min read
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