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Sounds from the Stage - A Spice Aisle Post

I grew up watching musicals, raised on Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. You name it, I watched or listened to it. My mom...

Gratitude - an Upbeat Authors post

This week's Upbeat Authors topic is: Gratitude. The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness....

Helping Others - An Upbeat Authors post

Helping others is this week's Upbeat Authors topic. Remember, you can view all of the posts from participating authors by searching the #...

Generosity - An Upbeat Authors post

Today's Upbeat Authors topic is Generosity. In prepping to today's post, I found this: If you ever want to grow, you need to give. This i...

Finding Balance

Today's Upbeat Authors topic is Finding a Balance in Life. The things in life that require the most balancing can be divided into two cat...

Words for the New Year

This week's Upbeat Authors theme is New Year's resolutions. Instead of making a resolution, I've chosen, as a lot of people do, a word of...

When one door closes...

Today's Upbeat Authors topic is: When one door closes, another one opens. Alexander Graham Bell's full quote is: “When one door closes, a...

Coffee, Coffee, Everywhere

So, you know how people visit a new city (or country), and one of the first things they want to do is check out the local cuisine, or the...

Writing to the Beat

Whenever I start a new writing project, I select a new playlist. After spending months with my hockey and baseball players, I was returni...

Release Day for Fighting For More & Taking His Shot

Today is a double release day for me. Fighting For More and Taking His Shot, books 2 and 3 in my Buffalo Bedlam hockey series are here, a...

Show Your Support

I received my first Phillies hat when I was six years old. And my first Flyers jersey when I was fourteen. As I write this post, I'm wear...

You should never be too busy to...

Today, the Upbeat Authors are filling in the rest of this phrase: You should never be too busy to... My first thought is, you should neve...

Places I've found story inspiration

Today's #UpbeatAuthors topic is: Places you've found inspiration for stories. For me, story inspiration is everywhere. I'm a huge sports ...

Laughter

Today's #UpbeatAuthors topic is: One simple way to improve your health today. And I've chosen laughter. You've heard the quote "Laughter ...

Favorite Positive Quote

Today's #UpbeatAuthors topic is "Favorite positive quote". Narrowing down to just one was really difficult for me as I find different quo...

The Joy in Simple Things

I'm so happy to be a part of an idea that my author friend Trish Milburn created: Upbeat Authors. Each week we’ll have a different theme ...

Release Day for ENAMORED

ENAMORED (book 3, Game of Love series) is here! And since I've woven two romances together in this one, I'm calling it a baseball romance...

My Tiny Obsession: A Spice Aisle Post

Guys, I'm addicted to the tiny house shows on HGTV and the DIY network. I love everything about the tiny house movement. What is this mov...

Release Day for Making His Move

Today is release day for Making His Move! I'm so excited to see Rod and Arielle out in the wild! :-) We're in the thick of the second rou...

Autism Blog Hop

I'm so happy to take part in RJ Scott's Autism Blog Hop. To start things off, did you know that over 70 million individuals world-wide ha...

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