http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog Writing, reading, walking Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:45:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've written a blog about the name change for Writer Unboxed.  It's up today if you want to read more. http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/23/more-on-the-name-change/ It is nearly ten pm and it is still very hot here in my house.  My forearms are sweating against the table. The air is perfectly still.  The dogs are sprawled with their bellies exposed to the air, hoping for a breath of cool.  In a little while, CR and ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/21/20-great-things-about-summer/ Oooh, the time is getting closer my friends! Elena's book actually has a release date, December 30, and cover art for both editions. And now you can see that you will be able to buy it either as a trade or mass market paperback: You can preorder at Amazon ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/16/cover-art/ One of those email questionaires has been making the rounds and a recent one asked, "What is your secret talent?"  One of my respondents (I will not out him/her unless s/he wishes to confess) answered, "Making other people sound good when they sing. "  How is that for being able ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/16/your-secret-talents/ I was browsing my mothers zillion cookbooks yesterday.  I asked her how many cookbooks she owns, and she confessed it was in the arena of six to eight hundred.   Cookbooks on anything you could imagine, jams and jellies to meat to the classics.  Many, many dessert cookbooks--she's always been a ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/11/something-happierchocolate/ (I debated whether to post this, but I would not be me if I didn't tell you this story, so here it is.) I’m thinking tonight of my cat Leo, who was killed Saturday night by a fox or a coyote. Probably the fox I’ve seen trotting down the street so ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/09/never-quite-long-enough/ The Girls woke me up at a quarter to five this morning.  Let me tell you, I was sleeping very nicely.  It poured last night and cooled things down, so there was a fine soft breeze coming through the window. The animals were all asleep.  I did not want to ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/03/five-am-wake-up/ I actually wrote this yesterday, Tuesday, but somehow put it in my drafts folder instead of the published folder.   Today is better still, after a massage yesterday afternoon (ouch!) Also, a link to a few more photos from the walk.  Yesterday, I was pleased  to realize my body felt okay.   A little ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/07/01/recovery/ This is me, starting out this morning in Dillon, Colorado on the second leg of the Avon Breast Cancer Walk in the Rocky Mountains. As you can see, the scenery was well worth every single step, all by itself. Far more worthwhile were the stories I heard along the ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/06/29/avon-walkat-last/ This, too, is travel: I'm eating the chocolate cookie they gave me when I checked in at the business man's special, a Holiday Inn or Ramada, one of those.  Not far from the airport, where I was stranded all afternoon.  Some plane didn't make it for hours and hours, and it ... http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/06/27/stranded/