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I’m proud to be able to report that it is now more than a week since I have had any sugar! Okay, that is not totally true. I’m eating fruit, and that’s practically all sugar. But I haven’t had any of the white crystalline kind, or even the white powdered kind, since sometime late December. 

So I went and looked at my shelves at a bookstore. My shelves. Several shelves. All mine. Someone is thinking positive, because there are lots and lots of copies of my book on shelves in Deseret Book Stores. And the book hasn’t officially come out yet! In February, hopefully there will be a whole lot

This morning, I finished another draft of the new book. It has no title. But it does have characters, and a story line. Very fun for me. So now I send it to readers (most of whom are also writers) to give me advice and feedback on how to make it good. That’s fun, too.

There’s some serious sadness going on in our house right now, let me tell you. We were supposed to go to Washington to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s with my sister and her family. (Don’t tell any of the other cousins, but these are kind of the favorites.) We packed carefully, even

My girls just answered the door (a neighbor bringing Christmas goodies) and hauled in a small box. “Mom, it’s for you.” Funny. I didn’t order anything lately. All my Amazon purchases arrived weeks ago. “Here. It’s really heavy. You carry it.” It had a postmark. From Salt Lake City. Specifically, from Deseret Book. Now I

It snowed more than a foot in Heber today. That’s plenty of snow, people. And I get to shovel it. Because I’m the wife that wants my husband to come home, dreading the long, long driveway only to discover that, by some miracle, he can actually move from the street into the garage. So I

They still call it that, here. The Second Grade Christmas Program. Forty minutes of singing-and-swinging delight. Even costumes, for heaven’s sake. Scott worked at home this morning so he could go witness Ellie’s glorious performance (among the crowd). Did I mention that I’ve already seen it twice this year, not to mention the times I