Just a Moment – Fifty-Nine

My cousin Roberta Gibson visited this past weekend. While she was here, we visited the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden.  We spent about four hours there and, between the two of us, we took hundreds of pictures!  The roses smelled as wonderful as they looked! I’ll be sharing more Arboretum photos next week.

Haiku Journey

Back in February, Roberta blogged about National Haiku Writing Month (Nahaiwrimo) and her own personal Haiku Monster. Why do I call it Haiku Monster? To me, writing haiku is so addicting that it could take over my life, eating up my time and creativity with delicate little nibbles. If I can contain it to a … Read more

The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel

A couple of weeks ago, Roberta over at It’s A Mystery Blog shared with me a book that she had recently read, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel, by Jodie Archer and Matthew L . Jockers.  The authors created a computer model to evaluate whether books would become bestsellers.  Doesn’t that sound intriguing?  … Read more