Yesterday, I cooked chicken enchiladas and hot buttered rice for lunch followed by homemade chocolate cupcakes with a honey-sweetened peach compote for dessert. Yum. Everything was delicious, and, best of all, the cupcakes and peach sauce were fat-free. (I wish I could say the same for the enchiladas and the rice, but cheese and butter…
Tag: 20 Minutes a Day of writing
Lost in Website Builder Land
I have been determined to build a website today. I have failed so far. There are many choices of free website builders, but, unfortunately, they include information that is beyond my level of computer literacy. Alas, I am hog-tied, at least for tonight. I keep thinking that if I create a website where I can…
5 Star Non-fat Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
Today, I modified a recipe that daughter Liz shared with me where you substitute 15 ounces of canned pumpkin puree for all the wet ingredients required in an 18.25 oz. chocolate cake mix to produce either delicious low-fat cupcakes or cookies. The only problem is that Ray and I don’t eat refined sugar so we…
Revisiting My Novel/Memoir…
I am thinking of returning to the memoir/novel that I worked on for a hundred years and looking at it with fresh eyes. I have work-shopped much of this writing and have had lots of feedback in the past. I’ve written and rewritten and gone from surface issues to much deeper ones. But I made…
Thank you, Edward!
A friend of mine in Texas, Edward Southerland, gave me a book when I was there a few weeks back. The gift was inspired, he said, from the reading he has done on my blog, which I will take as a compliment since I am always pleased to hear that people actually read my blog….
Working with Students/ Reconnecting with Friends
I am sitting with my student, George, again for our 2nd quick write. George will be coming twice a week for one hour for the next couple of weeks. This is our plan to get him ready for 6th grade, where he will be required to write a lot in class with a fair amount…
Hitting the Wall
We fully intended to get up this morning and head off to church for the celebration of one of St. Thomas’s most loved couples: John and Vince, who have been together for 50 years and who recently married after the new ruling by the Supreme Court on gay marriage. Ray and I both wanted very…
Moving Day
Ray and I have been at Sarah and Gregorio’s all day today helping them with moving from Arcadia to Pasadena. We arrived at 11 am and returned home around 9:30 pm. My primary job was to tend to Luna, which, of course, I was happy to do. Luna is not only beautiful and sweet, she…
A Quick Note
Dear Life, Please slow down a bit, will you? I am a little tired. I edited for 2 hours today. I love the novel that my student is working on. It’s just that I had to start at 6 am to get everything done. I watched Luna from 10 until 3 – that was the…
Time to Head Back West
Early tomorrow morning, I head back to LA to start teaching my summer writing classes. I’m not ready to leave Texas yet, but at the same time, I’m eager to go home. I have family to see, after all, most especially my beloved granddaughter, Luna Isabella. So, this draws me back to the West Coast….
20 Minutes a Day 