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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
17 Comments:
Gee, if I knew what sunshine looked like, I might think it helped. LOL I live in INDIANA, land of the gloom. LOL
Glad you can enjoy it but it's not for me. And I'm not ever going to like it. Pffft! I can rant if I want to. You do it all the time. LOL
Just got back from Hawaii, earthquake and all, and we would all do well to live more like they do over there...and hang loose! :) I'm still trying to recover from the time zone shifts.
Sorry...didn't mean to be anonymous...but I don't know how to work this thing...sound like the guy in the balloon at the end of Wizard of Oz?
Leanna Ellis
Oh anonymous, you lucky dog! Where were you in Hawaii? isn't it the most perfect place in the world?
Ok, I do like the extra summer hours (I'm in Oregon), but I don't think I like it enough to disrupt bedtimes that are so difficult to establish in the first place for the kiddos. I'm really not looking forward to trying to get Amber adjusted.
Speaking of California sunshine, Kristin, is it warm during Thanksgiving week usually? We are driving down to Disneyland for a week of fun. :)
I've never been to Disney OR California. :)
All month I've been walking around saying "We get our hour back soon." I'm so thankful. I HATED trying to get my 7 year old asleep when it was totally daylight outside his bedroom window. Sheesh.
I love the long summer evenings of DST! Why not enjoy an extra hour of volleyball without a million bugs bothering you? I do wish they'd keep it year-round. One reason I've heard that they don't is because of little kids having to wait at the bus stop in the dark. Ha! I was homeschooled, so what do I care? Lol. I'm a night owl anyway, so I wouldn't mind if we pushed it two hours ahead. I might actually see a sunrise that way.
i hate daylight savings.
and we don't have it here in western australia. however, it's going thru parliament at the moment to put it thru and start it december 1st. ugh, i hate it. what is the point? if you wanna do stuff in the light hours, just get up earlier.
Actually, DST has always amused me. It's funny how we say we're gaining/losing an hour when, really, we have the same 24 hours in a day no matter what time the sun rises or sets. It's also interestng to me how we can tell ourselves anything, we adjust ourselves to live as if were true, and we putter along like always, even if the structure we hang our schedules on- such as time- is a total fabrication. Makes me think of all the other untrue things we believe and adjust to.
We have DST here in Turkey, too. To me, it's no big deal. Just glad tonight is the night to "fall back!" Love the chance to sleep the extra hour. Relish the thought!
Reece, I just read your comment and agree. :)
I never sleep anyway, but my wife rants about as much as Colleen has about it. Hawaii and Arizona may be sane (but honestly, I doubt that) but any place that doesn't have the beautiful Indiana Autumn is no place I'd like to live.
I feel totally cheated!!! I forgot all about fall back and got up at the usual time for church. By the time my daughter informed me of my error - it was too late to go back to sleep. I want a do over!! Colleen - I'm sure I can't explain this in a scientifically correct way, but the reason we don't keep DST all year (God forbid!) is because the actual amount of time we have sunshine each day changes with the seasons. This spring forward/fall back business is designed to adjust with that. Still fuming about being cheated....
Andrea, I was cheated too. I had completely forgotten about DST when I got up a bit late this morning. I'm one of the oldest in the family, so I rushed to get the little kids dressed for church. I'm generally more worried about being late than both my parents, so I was upset that we were running so late and they still weren't even dressed. It wasn't until we (all the kids) were all dressed (what I thought was fifteen minutes late) that my mom burst out laughing and reminded me of the time change. She's still laughing, but I've forgiven her.
Allen, you're right. And this autumn has been gorgeous so far.
I am sooo glad to be back on real time! I bet I sleep like a log tonight!
Elizabeth and Andrea, I'm so sorry! I tried to alert you. :-) This morning when we got up it was actually starting to get light! Whoohoo! You know, we're on the far west edge of Eastern time and that might be why DST is so unnecessary for us. I was thinking about Illinis. On this regular time, it got dark last night at 6:45 or so. On Central time, just across the boarder, it would have been dark at 5:45. so it's no wonder some other states like DST.
But Indiana sure doesn't need it. And Reese that's so true about daylight! We have the same amount. I think my internal clock never did adjust to the wierd time.
My daughter lives in Puerto Rico, and they have the same time year-round.
Katy, love that word "fink." Haven't heard it in years. Let's bring it back!
Thanks for the tip about the rain. :) I'll be watching the weather closely over the next couple of weeks to figure out how to pack for everyone. Packing for a family of 8 can take a while. :)
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