Sabrina Jeffries's Blog

"He took her coffee. She took his heart. They got both back in spades."

Since my Will and Jane comic began on this blog (and y’all even named it for me!), I thought it was fitting to use them to say goodbye. It won’t be goodbye for them. I fully intend to keep up the comic, but you’ll have to go to Facebook, Pinterest, or my website to find […]

This year I’m sort of skipping Thanksgiving with my extended family. Usually, my brother’s family and my parents come here from Richmond or we go there, and we do the whole turkey thing. My brother cooks his famous spicy turkey, and my sister-in-law makes her fabulous and unusual dressing, and I do the rest with […]

It seems to me that when it comes to dealing with problems of everyday life, there are certain classes of people: Worrywarts: These are the people who fret over things. I am one. I fret over how to solve every problem. Sometimes the fretting keeps me up at night. Sometimes the fretting lasts for days. Sometimes […]

  Will knows a good party when he sees one! For me, a good Halloween party needs four things: spooky decor, costumes, liquor, and good food, not necessarily in that order. Oh, and people I love to hang out with. So, five things. Candy is optional. Costumes are not. I know lots of Americans aren’t […]

Let’s be clear. I don’t have a vanity plate, although I covet my friend Ava Stone’s plate, which says Mayfair. Regency in-joke, tee hee. I’ve considered getting one that says SabrinaJ, but I’m not sure I want people knowing how often I stop in at the wine store. Ahem. So I’ve resisted the impulse so far. Sometimes, […]

Hubby Rene has been trying to eat healthy, so he informed me that he didn’t want a lot of candy and cakes and other sweets around the house this holiday season. So I informed him that if he didn’t want sweets around, he shouldn’t buy the “good” Halloween candy. Every Halloween, he buys several bags […]

I’m what is sometimes called a Third Culture Kid. It’s a fancy term developed by sociologists for children who, according to author Ruth E. Van Reken, “move into another culture with parents due to a parent’s career choice” (she calls immigrant children Cross Cultural Kids). TCKs include missionary kids, military brats, and children whose parents […]

Ah, pirates. I do love a good pirate romance. But somewhere around ten years ago, they petered out. You hardly see them anymore, despite the popularity of  the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I’m curious about why. Is it because pirates are thieves at heart, and we don’t like thieves as much as we used […]

With apologies to the GoGos, I really, REALLY needed to get away a couple of weeks ago. So Hubby and I and Nick took a family vacation for the first time in two years (that’s the trouble with being self-employed–since you don’t get paid during vacation, you tend not to take them). Unfortunately, Hubby and […]