About Sally

Sally is a graphic designer and illustrator. In her spare time she writes novels and sometimes even finishes them. She lives with her professional author husband with their six furry four-footed roommates in Texas. All the power tools in the house belong to her. The Skylanders are joint property.

You Need To Start Halloween Shopping Before You Miss Your Chance!

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It’s the end of Summer now. Time to wake up early, shove those kiddos into their brand new clothes and hand them their backpacks full of glue sticks and yellow plastic folders. You wave a tearful goodbye as they board the school bus. As you close the door, you weep. Not because your baby has grown up or because you won’t see them for eight whole hours. No, these are not tears of sadness. They are tears of joy. Because it’s Halloween, bitches. So, It's Halloween, Apparently Yes, the day the kidlets wander off in the direction of school for the first time each year seems to send a Keep Reading >>>

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Because Of IVF Treatments, I Had A FOUR-Week-Long Period

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It’s no secret. I’m trying to get pregnant. I mean, it’s not like I talk about it incessantly, but I will NOT be guilted by grandmothers for not giving them great-grandkids. We’ve tried the old fashioned way, we’ve tried minimal medical intervention, and we’ve tried full blown IVF. While we have managed to have a couple of early successes, for whatever reason, my little embryos aren’t sticking it out for the long haul. And while my soul has been crushed so many times now, I’ve got a full punch card for a buy-one-get-one-free transvaginal ultrasound, (The best kind, amirite ladies?) I’m not Keep Reading >>>

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Surviving An IVF Miscarriage: My Only Month With A.J.

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Last June I had a miscarriage. It was a quiet thing which made it all the more dreadful. Something so wretched as losing a very VERY wanted pregnancy should at least have the decency to be loud and obvious. But no one knew. My husband did, of course. My boss, too, since I had to run out of the office while bleeding and praying that I was wrong. But I wasn’t. I knew. I felt her slip away. I was only five weeks and four days pregnant. Surviving An IVF Miscarriage: My Only Month With A.J. To some that is barely pregnant. But after four long, expensive years of fertility treatments Keep Reading >>>

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3 Reasons You Should Go Out And Rainbowfy Your Hair TODAY!

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I’ve always wanted rainbow hair. You can blame Lady Lovely Locks, or really pretty much any 80’s cartoon geared towards girls. Every one of those shows had rockin’ chicks sporting epic bangs and multicolored hair. Apparently I never grew up, or those things came back into style, because I finally got my rainbow hair, and I might never go back! 3 Things I Learned When I Got Rainbow Hair One time, in middle school, I was practicing my halloween makeup and got some red cream face paint in my hair. I thought it looked cool so I sculpted up a few spikes before washing my hair and going to Keep Reading >>>

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Procrastination Is That Friend That You Hate To See But Love To Party With

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I’ve got so much stuff to do. I should be working on my manuscript, working on my pitch for said manuscript for an upcoming writer's conference, tackle various freelance design jobs, organize a class I’m teaching at a said writer's conference, keeping my house at human occupation levels, and oh yeah, I've got an 8-5 job. So instead of working on ANY of those projects, I’m going to write a blog post about procrastination. Makes sense, right? Also, I'm probably going to procrastinate on this post because let's admit it: procrastination is that friend that you hate to see, but love to party Keep Reading >>>

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