Embrace a New Mindset
In my book LIFE: Living in Fulfillment Every Day, Grace encourages Eve to embrace the main goal, the big plan … and that is to always follow what feels good! Embrace your passions; enflame your desires; do the things you enjoy, the things that invigorate you, that make you come alive! While we don’t speak …
Recipe for a Really Great Novel!
You Draggle-tailed Bicche!
Draggle To wet or befoul (a garment, etc.) by allowing it to drag through mire or wet grass, or to hang untidily in the rain; to make wet, limp, and dirty. Draggle-tail A draggle-tailed person; a woman whose skirts are wet and draggled, or whose dress hangs about her untidily and dirty; a slut. Oh, …
Gravely Mistaken
Ain't Nothin' Captious About That
Cavil: cavilled, cavilling To quibble, trick; To raise captious and frivolous objections; To find fault without good reason; To oppose by finding trivial faults. Captious: captiously, captiousness Apt to ensnare or perplex especially in arguments; Apt to notice and make much of unimportant faults or defects. Reading the one, led to making sure …
Bole – Day 2 of My Alzheimer's Prevention Plan
Bole – the stem or trunk of a tree, or something cylindrical resembling a tree’s trunk, like a pillar or roll. The first usage of this word according to the OED was around 1314—e.g., ‘His neck is thicker than a bole.’ ‘The gnarled boles of pollard oaks and beeches.’ When writing historical fiction it’s always …
Historical Fiction Tease!
Brand new teaser for Avelynn! Hope you guys like it. 😀 In gratitude, Marissa
Too Much Information
I’ve been tagged a lot lately, but I haven’t been able to keep up with them all, but today, I’m playing along. The lovely Margaret Madigan and Charlotte Gruber double tag teamed me … so without further ado, a little too much information about me, you never wanted to know, lol. 😀 -Toilet Paper – …
My Alzheimer's Prevention Plan
Algid: chill, cold, freezing, frozen, frigid Algidity. Algidness. Today starts a new enterprise, a journey to increase the size of my hippocampi. A recent Prevention Magazine article: How to Beat Alzheimer’s at Its Own Game by Mike Zimmerman, spoke to the ways one can help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Among good advice like …