Karen DeLabar

This post was originally posted on the blog Have Coffee… Will Write that I shared with Susan Borath. With Father's Day this weekend and us packing for a week in Avon, North Carolina I thought I'd cheat and just repost. Please forgive me!! I'll be back next week with an new post 🙂 I am…

It was Christmas Eve 2005, Eric and I were only married for two months; we didn't have much money and we were still wrapping our minds around being married, owning a house and having to shovel our own walkways. I woke up to an empty spot beside me and smiled. A couple of years before…

That's right, friends, I'm back! What does that mean? It means you're not going to see me for awhile. Wait? Is that right? Let me check my flow chart yep, that's right. Confused? Not as much as me, but let's see if we can figure this out together. 🙂 Ok, so if you've been following…

I know, I know, it's been two weeks since I've posted to this blog. But if you would just put down the pitch forks I can explain. OK, I can't, not really. I admit it, I got lazy. It was the final weeks of “Willy Wonka” and I just wanted to laze around and drink…

I'm a snacker. I like to eat and I like to do it while I write. I usually reach for the pretzel sticks, my current snack of choice, when I'm stuck and I've been stuck often. I guess I can be thankful that my snack is pretzels and not cheeseburgers. For me, I think it…

This has nothing to do with writing, reading, Scotch or anything remotely close to my journey to publication. (Yes, Scotch is very important to that particular journey.) Sparky sent this to me in an email and I got a chuckle out of it so I thought I'd share it with you. *Note I didn't take…