Yesterday on my way home from work, I filled up my car's gas tank. The cheapest gas station in town sold regular unleaded for 3.84 a gallon. The mandatory evacuation...
First of all, when you live in the middle of a chain of islands and there's only one road to the mainland, it's your God given right to obsess about approaching storms. It's...
I finally downloaded pictures from my camera to my computer. So, even though my California trip took place a month ago, I could revist some of the highlights by looking at...
Amid dire predictions of impending doom from Hurricane Gustav and John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin (Who?) for VP running mate, I was delighted to find the news snippet...
It's 10:24 pm here in the Florida Keys. Had all gone as planned, I would have been sitting in my aisle seat on a flight to New Orleans. Unfortunately, it's hurricane...
When I started this blog, I resolved that I wouldn't use it as a forum to promote my political choices. That's not to say that a political topic has never filled this...
This week on Babes in Bookland, we discuss reinventing your career and kicking down doors you thought closed to you. Even though we come at this from the perspective of...
Sorry to have been away for several days. Vacation with family took precedence and then there was that pesky inconvenience called Tropical Storm Fay....
I'm sleep-deprived and my butt is starting to fuse with the leather on my recliner. I remain enthralled with the Olympic games. I might have thought, at first,...
For the next two weeks, I expect to experience as much of an emotional roller coaster as a room full of PMSing women watching tear-jerker movies. The Olympics are...
Wow! Over 20 people responded to my personal Literacy Benefit. In return for receiving a free copy of one of my books, they promised to make a donation to a literacy...
On my travel day back home from San Francisco, I had a two hour stop in Las Vegas. That's plenty of time to play the slot machines located by the gates in the airport. It...
Since the only sights I've seen in the last couple of days are the corridors, meeting rooms, ballroom, and lobby bar of the hotel, and a couple of thousand other writers, I...
You can still sign up to receive a free copy of one of my books. Email me at mary@mary-stella.com with your name and address (No, I won't sell, share or give the info) and...
I returned to San Francisco yesterday and settled into seeing more of the city than I did when I arrived Saturday and immediately took off from the airport to the Pacific Coast...
Still no pictures because I was too tired from being a tourist to track down an Office Max, but I've shared a little more about my adventures over on Babes in Bookland. Click...
Cliffs Notes -- get it? I drove the Pacific Coast Highway today from San Francisco to Monterey. Gorgeous views of cliffs looming over really tan beaches and the...
I've known for months that I would attend Romance Writers of America's national conference in San Francisco next week. I registered early and booked my room. Made my...
I, myself, admit to being a big pedicure fan. I have to have one once a month. Florida heat plus walking around on pea rock in sandals, or around the house barefoot does a...
Every year at its national conference, Romance Writers of America holds a giant booksigning. All of the books are donated and the proceeds go to Literacy...
Like just about everything in life, the medical matters we deal with change as we grow older. In childhood it's trips to the pediatrician for vaccinations and ear infections;...
It's that time of year in Florida when we actually pay attention to the meteorologists when they say, "There's a tropical wave off the Cape Verde islands that we're paying...
Last week at work, our president assigned me a task: Working with our Education Director, research the issue of offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Dig into the...
Yes, the misuse of "loosing" in the headline is intentional. It illustrates a pet peeve I have over people using the wrong word. I can't tell you how many times I...
I've been planning the new bathroom for months. Sort of. There are different stages of planning in remodeling, at least for me. The first stage involves...
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