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everything! In my shifter worlds, family is so important. Because in real life, it is to me too. This is my son-in-law, daughter, and granddaughter. My son and I are going to be running around having fun at Disney World during conference!! Can't wait!! Hope you are having a great week!!! Terry Spear “Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.” Connect with Terry Spear: Website: http://www.terryspear.com Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/421434.Terry_Spear Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrySpearParanormalRomantics Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerrySpear Wilde & Woolly Bears http://www.celticbears

by M. L. Buchman Who doesn't love the 4th!  Well, okay, the bad, bad aliens in Independence Day for one. And maybe, just maybe they blew up the White House before being destroyed, but as I said, bad, bad aliens. And after all, they were trounced so thoroughly that it took them 20 years to come back for a sequel (which we'd like to think was a record for Hollywood, but sadly it isn't even close. I just saw the trailer for the remake of The Magnificent Seven... which I can't wait to see.) Of course it is hard to complain about Hollywood filming in series when I write in series. Especially when I have so much fun doing it! I counted today and in my Night Stalkers series alone, there are four main series and a couple of minor ones. Uh-huh! Uh-huh! The reason this is cool is that one of my series within the Night Stalkers series is the Night Stalkers White House Holiday series. (If this isn't making sense, you can always check it out on my newly rebuilt w...

  Have a Happy Fourth of July! From the Casablanca Authors    

The 4th of July is one of the times I am especially happy to live in one of the most beautiful cities in the United States, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It is a gorgeous city on the lake and home to one of the biggest fireworks displays in the country. We're also near a few Indian reservations, so we can get better fireworks of our own. After all the ones they sell at the stands are not like they used to be. Remember when snakes got really enormous? Remember when sparklers lasted longer than 30 seconds? Remember when the flowers chased after you like they contained homing devices? Ah, nostalgia. Anyway, since I live downtown, I have the benefit of being able to see the show from my house. Before that the whole neighborhood gets together for a huge BBQ. We consume pounds of watermelon, ribs, dill cream pasta salad, and potato chips. We set off our own fireworks as the sky grows dark until we see this: So, Happy 4th of July to all in the US and happy belated Canada ...

My parents and I went to visit my older sister when she was in college, I was about 15. Shortly after my arrival, she noticed my preoccupation with my new wrist watch. It even had one of those outer timing dials you could turn for purposes that were never quite clear, but I was deeply enamored of it. It also had that cool little AM/PM window where the "3" was supposed to be (the date window didn't come along until later). (And, yes, this was even before LED and other digital watches, waaaayyy before portable phones.) This is about the right age. (Cool shirt hunh?) So, the first thing my sister did after my parents weren't in the room was grab my watch and set it some random amount ahead (or way behind). "There!" She handed it back to me, quite pleased with herself. "That's Matthew time. You aren't allowed to calibrate it to real time, or anyone else's. Or explain what's going on for the duration of your entire visit." I soon le...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Every American school child is required to memorize these lines penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. I remember agonizing over them, practicing endlessly so that I could stand before the class and say them aloud. We had to get every syllable correct or we would fail our government class and then – gasp – not graduate! Oh the pressure! Shaking in a cold-sweat terror of nervousness I remember, but I don’t remember the nitty-gritty analysis of what these words actually mean. Do you? I am sure we did study the history but over time we develop our own concepts of “liberty” and “life” and that tricky one: “the pursuit of happiness.” As I thought about what brings me happiness for this month’s blog theme, it was easy to make a list. Yet I found myself wonderin...

The first half of July's theme is the pursuit of happiness and what better day to celebrate that than our country's birthday? Our forefathers were in pursuit of a lot of things and you have to admire their willingness to fight so diligently for what they believed in. Pursuing publication is a bit like that, though, thankfully, no bayonets or big tea parties. I started writing for publication when my youngest started kindergarten. I'd given up a great career as a corporate meeting planner (all the travel wasn't conducive to starting a family when my husband and I wanted me to stay home to raise them), so when the youngest was gone all day, what was I going to do with myself? Answer: I picked up a few pencils, some spiral-bound notebooks (in the days before everyone had laptops), and I started writing my story. Umpteen revisions later, it's still not published, but I hold out hopes that maybe someday it will be. But then I had this 400 page manuscript; now what do I d...

The 4th of July and fireworks just seems to go together. That and barbecues. As a kid I loved shooting off Roman candles, piccolo pete, glow worms, and making designs with sparklers. Then they were illegal where we lived, so it was attending the local displays plus Disneyland all summer long. Their shows on July 4th were always even more fantastic. So for now, I'll treat you to some fun fireworks and if you're looking for fun recipes for holiday gatherings, take a look at my blog http://linda-wisdom.blogspot.com/ . And have a happy 4th! http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks2.html Linda