Now that I’ve completed the first draft of my project, it’s time to give myself a break from it. I’ve actually been doing this for the past couple weeks. I’ve kept busy with other things, trying to catch up on duties I’ve let wait (tell me, do you know anyone who’s really ever “caught up”?). […]
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Over the weekend I participated in an Author Fair at the Joliet Public Library, an event they hold every year that’s sponsored by three libraries in the area. This was my first year there but what a fun day, with a variety of authors and a steady stream of patrons filing through (despite the lovely […]
Back To The Writing Life
I feel like I’ve just returned from my research trip, talking about the places I’ve been and sharing my pictures. It was so much fun to relive that trip! But even as I took a little portion of recent days to revisit those places, I’ve been continuing with my work-in-progress. In fact, I turned in […]
Good Things Must Come To An End
Back in Brussels for the last full day of our trip, we visited the American Embassy so I could visualize the neighborhood for my Book Two project. And to buy some chocolate to take home! Of all the embassies, the American one had the most visible security, with blockades set up in front of the […]
Paris and the Tour d’France
With so many of the streets of Paris blocked off because of the Tour d’France, just walking from one spot to another took quite some time. We only had time for one museum, and I had to make a choice. Either the Louvre, where I wanted to at least see the Mona Lisa, or the […]
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