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Food Experiments Gone Awry: My Very Own Kitchen Nightmares
Over the years, I’ve developed confidence in my ability to cook just about anything except bread. I regularly search for different recipes online, but also don’t hesitate to come up with my own creations. My first…
Joss Ware/Colleen Gleason Booksigning
My regular, monthly booksigning column won’t appear here for a couple weeks, but I wanted to post now about an interesting booksigning that I went to this past weekend. The signing was for Joss Ware’s latest…
Angst or No Angst?
I love happy endings, and I hate to cry. I know that is one reason that I gravitated to reading romances. Even in fifth grade, after reading Gone with the Wind, I knew that happy every…
Uncontacted
With this picture, an indigenous rights organization in Brazil hopes to give attention to the rights — and future — of “uncontacted” tribes: groups that have little to no interaction with the outside world. Maybe this…
Sentences You Won't Find in Romance Novels
Although romance has departed far from its more formulaic patterns in the 1970s and earlier, becoming more diverse and thus more forgiving of ingredients that break the mold, still there are situations that are considered just…
English gardens, updated
As I wrote in a recent post, I am planning to go on a tour in England this summer. Following your very kind recommendations, I finally booked a tour that will take my mother and me…
Where Every Heroine is Above Average
Romance readers, especially those of us who read paranormals, know how it goes. It’s not enough for the heroine to be a gorgeous shapeshifter, she needs to have powers that no female in 9000 years has…