by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 28, 2013 | history, Writing
That title immediately makes me think, “Get off my lawn, hippie!” As an impressionable fifteen-year-old, I wanted to be a hippie. The fashion of the 1960s had come back around, as it is so oft to do, and I was going through an obession with The Monkees,...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 24, 2013 | Food, Writing
As we once again brace for the Snow-pacalypse, I’ve officially gotten bored with editing. Yeah. I knew it would happen eventually. I think I’m overfamiliar with my book. My brain is like, “Yeah…I’ve read this before. And it pretty much...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 20, 2013 | Writing
And, meanwhile, I feel like death warmed over. So, I had this amazing blog post in mind for Sunday, guest starring these amazing, ooey gooey s’mores bar brownies I made the other day (side note: they were delicious). As I stood in the kitchen making dinner...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
With the writer’s conference a horrifying two months away, I’ve been focused on my hard copy edit. The high level edit? Done. Now I’m ripping through my hard copy pages, scratching out blatant abuse of the word “certainly” and replacing...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 10, 2013 | Writing
That must be a first. A friend of mine just got back to work from maternity leave. She said, “You know, I started trying to guess who pinned pins on Pinterest before looking at their name, just to see how well I know my friends. And I could always guess yours,...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Balki Bartokomous of Mypos had his dance of joy. And I have my happy dance. The Hubs says I look like a deranged muppet when I break out the happy dance; lots of arm flailing and dancing on inappropriate offbeats. But I’m pretty stoked tonight, since I finally...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 1, 2013 | Randomness
This week was exhausting. Mother of God. I reached a point at approximately 10:45am on Thursday, when my brain went PING. And frankly, I just didn’t care anymore. Stressed at work. Stressed at home. Kids are sick. And now I have a freaking toothache. Not...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Feb 25, 2013 | Randomness, Writing
In a horrific showing of the passing of time, my ten year wedding anniversary is this year. Ten years. Call me Rip van Curley, but I can’t figure out how a) ten years have passed and b) how I’m old enough to have been married for ten years. And have two...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Feb 19, 2013 | Food, Writing
I’m stressed this week. Already. But hey, I’ve been trying to set aside my eternal pessimist attitude and adopt a more optimistic “hey, there’s half a candy bar left!” kind of attitude. Let’s make this a “compliment...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Feb 18, 2013 | Author Spotlight, Book Spotlight
If there’s one thing that irritates me about a certain book series with “sparkly” paranormal elements (look, I’m trying to be nice here), the main character never changed. Her character never had an arc, never grew into anything more than she...
