Veronica Scott's Blog, page 141

Health is on my mind of late – wishing everyone who reads this post nothing but the very best health!

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain

(VS sez: He probably would have been equally wary of too much internet searching on your health issues too!)

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is...

One year ago, we were celebrating my daughters graduating from college (Berkeley and Northridge – very proud of both of them!!!) – don’t really remember giving them specific advice on the occasion. I’ve tried to live my life keeping in mind that I’m an example – both good and bad LOL – especially as a single Mom. Read a very interesting piece on MSNBC last week, where they had interviewed a number of CEO’s about the advice they give new college grads, which inspired me to answer the MSNBC que...

Going back to my SFR , out on submission now, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly shows u...

What’s in your purse? I always enjoy looking at the celebrity ones in various magazines, all that high end stuff spread out so neatly and beautifully photographed as if it just fell out of the purse that way. LOL! If I tip my purse over, there will be a flurry of mini dust bunnies, pennies, an odd aspirin or two, Ralph’s receipts and THEN the actual contents. Nothing high end. The key to my Honda Civic, the day job badge (with its very old and out of date photo), a checkbook, although I hardl...

I’m the proud Mother of two grown daughters and for no reason at all other than that, decided this week’s topic for quotes and photos should be about daughters!

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.” Oscar Wilde

(VS sez: Actually I don’t LOL but I thought it was amusing.)

What the daughter does, the mother did. Trad. Proverb

(VS sez: Uh oh.)

He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. English Proverb

You teach your da...

Could I write a love story in 1500 words? My chapter of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) is going to publish an anthology of short stories as a fund raiser and the Los Angeles Romance Authors (LARA) President challenged us all to put on our writing hats and submit something.

Piece of cake, I thought, since I write 500 word blog posts week in and week out, here on my own page, at work, and as a guest on other blogs such as Here Be Magic and Paranormal Romantics. How hard could it be to writ...

Going back to my SFR , out on submission now, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly shows u...

I’ll state right up front that I’m scared of snakes – my biggest phobia – and become nauseous at the Reptile House at the Zoo, where I periodically make myself stare at them to confront my fear. I do have kind regards for the House Snake Daemon that my friend Amber Kallyn is raising…and that’s it LOL. Stepped over a rattlesnake once so I must be grateful to that snake for not biting me (my only experience at levitation – from the ground to the top of a six foot stone wall). On with the quotes...

Memorial Day is a day for especially remembering all those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, in all the wars – more than 1,000,000 according to an article I read yesterday.

Of course, this being America, we’ve also turned it into the first long weekend of summer, a time for big sales at the stores and a variety of other things, but the solemn reason for the day remains.

I have a small Memorial Day story to share, not really so much about the military (although if yo...

Going back to my SFR , out on submission now, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly shows u...