Monthly Archives: February 2018

Hey, guys. Bonus post time! I just wanted to let you all know that the Brains 2 Book Cycon is scheduled and ready to roll! You know what I love? Conventions. You know what I love more? Conventions I don’t have to leave my house for. I’ll be participating in the con in a fewContinue reading “B2B Cycon, 2018”

Have you ever read V for Vendetta? I don’t mean, have you seen the movie. The movie was awful. Have you read the graphic novel? You should. And if you can, you should get ahold of the collection that has a forward by the author. Because there’s a story there that once upon a timeContinue reading “Don’t turn off the news”

I love The Simpsons, at least the first 20 seasons. Honestly, I’m not prepared to say that the show’s out of ideas, but I do think that the older the episode is, the better. That could be because the new ones aren’t as good, but it’s more likely that it’s because I view older episodesContinue reading “Use the simple”

I have a desk at my day job. It’s a nice, wraparound desk with lots of space to stick things up on the walls. I have all sorts of lovely things to decorate the desk. Pictures of my kids, Snoopy cartoons, inspirational postcards from Erin Condron and Van Goh prints. On my desk are toys.Continue reading “Stake your space”

A long time ago, when I was in fifth grade, I had a terrific teacher. I mentioned her in a recent blog post about things I learned in school that had nothing to do with what I was supposed to be learning. She was an elderly lady with an honest to God beehive hairdo. IContinue reading “Sit up straight!”

I don’t often talk about my day job, for a lot of reasons. I like my job and I have a lot of respect for the company that I work for. But I try to keep a wall between my writing life and my day job life. I’m only going to touch on it aContinue reading “Don’t wish away the bad times.”

Hi, my name is Nicole, and I am a Fly Baby. If you don’t know what that means, you haven’t been introduced to the Flylady. And I want to introduce you to her today if you’ve never met her. I’m sure that you’ve read about me using the Flylady’s habits to keep my home inContinue reading “Using Flylady tips to help your writing”

Coffee is awesome. It’s delicious, gives you a boost of energy and is good for you in moderate doses. An excessive amount is bad, but an excessive amount of anything is bad. Did you know you could poison yourself with water? True story. I really love a good cup of coffee. While I will drinkContinue reading “Making specialty coffees at home”

I recently talked about how much I hated school as a child and teenager. I stand by that. In fact, I cyber school my kids because I didn’t think they needed to go through that shit. Looking back though, I realized that I learned a ton of things that had nothing to do with theContinue reading “What I learned from school that had nothing to do with my lessons.”