LAURIE ROCKENBECK
My personal and random blog
Third Quarter Review
At the beginning of 2011, I set out with some pretty specific goals for the year. I ran across a recent suggestion that people forgo the January New Year's goals and resolutions in favor of a more broadened "year-in-review and goals adjustment" timed to match your...
Details, Details…
We went to my nephew's wedding in Atlanta last weekend. The time for when all our college contemporaries getting married has pretty much passed, and we are mostly going to weddings that are for folks who are work or family. It was interesting being a close relative...
Tomatillo Salsa
Compared to fifty pounds of cucumbers, this singular colander of tomatillos did not seem like much of a project. Even after finding a recipe online that looked promising, and reading the ingredient list that would include eight cups of chopped onion, three cups of...
WordPress Site Stats
One of the fun things about blogging on Wordpress is the "site stats" page. I look at it to see how many people read my blog and to see "who" might be reading my blog. It shows me how many people who have read, or at least clicked on, which posts. I have no way of...
The Current GLBTQ YA BrooHaHa
It started on Monday when a blog titled "Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA." (To unpack the acronyms...YA is "Young Adult" and the other is "Gay, Lesbian,Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer") Basically, the author doesn't name the agent, but...
I Am Writer–Hear Me Roar
Okay, go ahead and groan out loud. My mind is sort of mushy today due to the fact I spent most of it in a semi-comatose state with my arms wrapped around my sick son. There's a lot of guilty pleasure in this. I mean, who really wants their child to be sick? Not me....
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