by Olivia | Feb 22, 2012 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
The typical coffee drinker consumes an average of 3.1 cups per day. Thirty million adults pour specialty coffee concoctions down their gullets. And what is everyone else drinking? I’m not much of a coffee drinker. But I do enjoy a warm beverage at my desk, and easily...
by Olivia | Feb 20, 2012 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
This post originally ran on the WordServe Water Cooler blog at www.wordservewatercooler.com, a terrific daily resource and encouragement for writers of all varieties. “Noveling.” On the day that I’m writing this, I’ve typed the word novelist several times and...
by Olivia | Feb 17, 2012 | Mama Says, Uncategorized
I was working at my mom’s dining room table and she was in the kitchen clanking around. Doing whatever, making kitchen noises. Then she came around the corner and said, “Here’s the change of plans. You didn’t know there was a plan, but here’s the...
by Olivia | Feb 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the great surprises of social media for me has been the community of writers anxious to encourage each other. One of the writers I’ve gotten to know cyberly is Julie Cantrell. Her first book, Into the Free, released a couple of weeks ago, and I admire it...
by Olivia | Feb 13, 2012 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
Time for slow-pitch softball? Can it be? Last Sunday in church the person who organizes our church team announced it was time to get registered for the spring league we participate in. And by “we” I mean the people who play on knees that need surgery, get their faces...
by Olivia | Feb 10, 2012 | Mama Says, Uncategorized
Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday—number 86. (Whooping and hollering here, please.) She’s always been especially proud to share the day with Thomas Edison, and now she actually lives near his winter estate, which we visited together. Recently a woman in my church...
