Just Me

    How is it already the end of June? It feels like the month just flew right by. And already, half of the year is over.   I guess we fail to notice how swiftly time slips away when we are so busy with everything going on in our lives. For this month in particular, there are graduations and Father’s Day.   And for the first time in a long time, we in the Wilson household got to experience both of those events this month. My youngest, Jax, graduated and reached the milestone of moving on to higher education. So not only did he say goodbye to high school this month but he also started taking a class at the local community college. We are very proud of Jax and excited for what his future holds.   My husband had a nice Father’s Day this year. Our oldest and his partner joined us for dinner, and my husband enjoyed receiving his gifts. We also had lots of laughs while watching the movie Kung Fu Hustle .   As for me, the writing continued this m...

  I didn’t get much reading done this month – that is, if you don’t count the MANY articles I read for the March KU book I wrote. But for books? Nope, not that many this month. I was mostly focused on the topic I was writing about, and for the first couple of weeks, aside from one children’s book written by a friend and fellow author, I just read books about that topic. That’s how it is when I am writing a nonfiction book with a tight deadline: I read ONLY books on that topic! I don’t even read newspaper or magazine articles unless they are on that topic. (Which means I usually have a lot of catching up to do on the various newspaper and magazine mailing lists I am on!).   However, as I got close to finishing the book, I went back to reading other books. The books I am reading are as follows:   Research book Biography Random nonfiction book A book from a shelf I am currently tackling (right now, the classics) A fellow author book A series book  ...