The Velvet Zebra

Author: The Velvet Zebra

  • One thing leads to another

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    So the other weekend, after the one interrupted by the flu, my sister and I headed over to our favorite flooring store to see if they had the same wood we put down in the living room and dining room, with the intent to put the same in the bedrooms and kitchen. Luckily, we were…

  • I must be getting old

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    Because I just don’t get it. I’m sitting in my livingroom, inside my house, reading a book while my sister is watching television, or maybe we’re both on the computers with a baseball game in the background, minding our own business inside of our own home, when it happens. You can hear them a couple…

  • Strike a pose

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    I’ve been told I hold a pen in a very angry manner. Maybe that’s true, although I don’t see how it’s all that different than others. Sure, there are other ways to hold a pen, I even hold them differently for different tasks. When I’m signing my name on a delivery slip, for instance. Or…

  • The Best Laid Plans

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    I had them, for this past weekend. The plan was to sleep in, then go to the flooring store where we purchased our wood flooring for the living room/dining room two years ago, and talk to them about having the bedrooms and kitchen done to match. We love our wood floors! It’s the best thing…

  • The Annoying bit

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    I’ve been trying to come up with the back cover blurb/teaser/copy for the new novel coming out for evah! This one just wasn’t coming to me. Most of them are a bit of a struggle, trying to boil down the novel into a few paragraphs of teaser designed to make the reader want to read…

  • Not for the faint of wrist

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    I’m three chapters in to my newest novel, completely hand written. My wrist is killing me, my fingers are sore, but you know what? I’m okay with it. Honestly, my wrist stops hurting if I just stop writing and go do something else for about twenty minutes. My fingers are getting used to it, so…

  • There will be Rum

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    The sun’s out today ! Like it was yesterday, and is going to be tomorrow and Sunday. Glorious blue skies and sunshine! Okay, so it is Spring, but around here you never know what you’re gonna get this time of year, and typically your sunny days are Monday through Friday, almost never on the weekend.…

  • WooT!

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    Well, I did it !  I manage the walk, even came across the finish line ahead of the majority – not that it was a race or anything, of course. What a great day that was. Not only did we have a fantastic weekend of sunshine and perfect weather, but then the Walk to Empower…

  • Walkies!

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    So this Sunday, Mother’s Day May 9th, is my cancer walk – raising money for Walk to Empower, which benefits women diagnosed with breast cancer, offering them assistance, guidance, and a great source of emotional support. Today, I’m at home with a touch of “something” that flattened me out – but I stayed home from…

  • Take my advice

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    I see writing advice all over the web now, from so many different sources. People flock to writing forums, desperate to uncover the secrets. Those who aren’t there in the vain hope of learning some secret code of writing, are there dolling it out, hoping you’ll believe they have the authority and wisdom to tell…