Author: Laci

Book Reading Update

I’m currently on a contemporary romance book binge, mostly, with a couple of historical romances and some fantasy thrown in. Seriously, I have a problem but that’s okay because it is books. Like two books a week kind of thing, but at least I’m not bringing home pets or something. Actually that not quite true,

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Summer Hikes: Fort Worth Nature Center – Bear and I

For those that are curious as to the reason for the disruption of my normal posting schedule.Writing Update: The first draft is complete! Holy cow I wrote over 70,000 words for one draft. Truth be told, it is still a bit mind boggling. Is it perfect? Heck no, not at all but my wonderful husband

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Writing Group: Dragon Distribution System

The prompt for this story is what would happen if mythical creatures were real in this day and age. What would people do? How would the creatures act? Creatures such dragons, mermaids, giants, unicorns, and so on. The stories produced by this prompt were fantastic. My story is based off what is jokingly called the

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Recipe Experiment: Summer Orzo Salad

The local farmers market has some fantastic vendors, one of which makes pasta. They also make fantastic butternut squash ravioli. They don’t have a website but if you end up at the Denton Community Market stop in at Lucido’s Garden Pasta. I worked with them to come up with an easy (and tasty) summer recipe

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Writing Group: Poetry –  Poems of Salt

The prompt that sparked these two poems was jokingly named poems of salt, things we disliked, this that frustrated us. There were a lot of heavy poems the week we wrote these. Mine are a bit lighter, a bit more metaphoric but still have themes that are important to me. What poems of salt would

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Texas: Bluebonnet Festival

I have wanted to go to the Bluebonnet Festival in Ennis Texas for a ridiculous long time and finally made it this year! The actually festival is only one weekend a year but the whole month of April people can drive the bluebonnet trails. There are a lot of bluebonnets and other wild flowers and

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