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Autumn is pumpkin time — and time for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins! (I don’t actually discriminate against the season. Any time is a good time for pumpkin stuff!) This particular recipe is pretty healthy, so it gets double points!

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Had a *glorious* week at Lake Tahoe. Such breathtaking scenery! And when I say “breathtaking,” I do so with all the words my thesaurus can list in mind: spectacular, awe-inspiring, magnificent, sensational, wondrous, and all the rest.

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We’ve put our heads together and come up with a flash of inspiration. Fiction! One picture, three authors. Writing to a random theme is challenging. So is keeping the tale to a particular word count…

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Home garden and decorating magazines long ago inspired in me a yearning for a fantasy oasis. After spending the summer working on this project, we love sitting out on the deck!

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Today, we're looking at cover candy that's black, white, and red. Doesn’t that particular combination just scream for attention? And fantasy books do it right!

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A Drift of Quills adheres firmly to the adage that you can never have (or read) too many books. “I add ‘Read Books’ to my to-do list every day so I know I’ll get at least one thing done.” Here we are again, reading and sharing our finds in another installment of Books We Love… … Continue reading A Drift of Quills: Books We Love #8 →

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The ethersphere is full of fantastic goodness—and by that I mean there are a lot of cool fantasy-type things and fantasy-seeming things out there for us to discover! Sometimes it’s hard limiting myself to just five pieces of awesomeness, but if I didn’t we’d all be down an endless rabbit hole. Come see what I found this time!

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Book spine poetry is magic anyone with a collection of books can perform. You, too, can be an artist! Come join in the fun!

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A Drift of Quills are talking to the Head Muse (Department of Music) to find out what—if anything—helps promote the mood to write or inspire scenes, moods, or any other parts of our imagination. What kind of tunes do you think we listen to? We share a lot of things in common; is music one of them?

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Someone in my family discovered the recipe for an easy, scrumptious deep dark chocolate cake. I don’t know who it was or where they found it, but the flavor and texture were to die for. We made it a lot. It swiftly became the go-to … Continue reading Chocolate Fix: Deep Dark Chocolate Cake →

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