About B.D.
A lifetime resident of Kansas, B.D. Tharp is the author of Feisty Family Values, published by Five Star Publishing in February 2010.B.D. began a freelance copy writing and editing company in 2004, now called Scribble LLC. She has been published in Sheridan Edwards Review, Women’s Focus magazine, Active Aging Magazine, Wichita Register magazine, and A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind: An Anthology.
B.D. just completed Patchwork Family, the sequel to Feisty Family Values. More...
Tag Archives: family
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers & grandmothers out there. I hope you had a wonderful day with family and friends. I certainly did! Everyone is always so busy, myself included, so it’s nice to take a few minutes to show someone you love them. Sometimes those moments are planned, sometimes they aren’t. It really doesn’t matter – as long as they happen. Make someone’s day by giving them your undivided attention for a little while. It’ll be fun and very worthwhile.
Hospitality
I just got back from Norton, KS and I have to say it’s a cool place to visit. We have cousin’s there and it was fun catching up. (The kids have sure grown!) Norton is a nice town of around 3,000 people and a bunch of them came out to talk to me about writing and FEISTY FAMILY VALUES in particular. My first stop Saturday morning was Destination Kitchen. What a COOL place! If you’re looking for a kitchen gadget, this is the place to be. And they have lovely kitchen towels, BBQ tools, cake decorating stuff, you name it! … Continue reading
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Fun Facts relating to Feisty Women & Families:
Coffee is a great communication stimulator (not to mention a physical one.) There are 38 million women Baby Boomers in the US (count me in!) Seventy-five percent of US families are categorized as Non-Traditional (the key word here is “families”, regardless of the form they take, they are a unit of people loving and supporting one another, and that is GOOD.) Food & talk unites and strengthens families at meal time (Yes!). 2.4 Million Grandparents have responsibility for grandchildren (G-parents ROCK!) Pets improve family health. More than half the US households have a pet in the family. (Let’s hear a … Continue reading
Writer’s space & time
No writer ever has enough space or time to write. That is one of our challenges. Unless you’re very wealthy (which most of us are not) we have a little place carved out of our homes to write. I think it was Stephen King who used to write in the utility room, but I could be mistaken. And if he did, it was VERY long ago. I had a great writing space until I started telecomuting in my day job. Now my special place is split between ALU office, home finances & correspondence, and creative writing. Notice it’s relagated to last. … Continue reading
Leap year? Roughly Right? Leap of Faith?
It’s been a while since I was in school and studied leap year so I looked it up. When in doubt…? The bottom line is this: it’s a math problem. According to “The Straight Dope” “…the astronomical year – the time it takes the earth to go exactly once around the sun – is not precisely 365 days. The ancients estimated it as 365.25 days…it’s actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds.” Nothing is ever easy, is it? To keep the astronomical year and calendar year ALMOST in synch “Leap Year” was adopted. Proposed in 709, they’ve … Continue reading
Character development
A friend of mine asked me where I came up with the characters in FEISTY FAMILY VALUES. Mostly they are made up, but I did use some real people as models for the characters. By that I mean, I needed to have an image in my mind for them to become three dimensional. One of my college professors was the inspiration for Regina. She was tall, wore broomstick skirts, had long salt and pepper colored hair, and she didn’t walk, she glided across the room. A dear friend of mine battled cancer years ago and won, despite being five foot … Continue reading
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Book Review from Watermark Books
This is an excerpt from Beth’s weekly Watermark News & Notes. It is very germane to the struggle many of us go through with cancer and how it touches our lives. “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green (Dutton; ISBN 9780525478812, $17.99) Review by Beth Golay In March of 2005, I received a call from our Penguin Children’s Book representative inviting me to a dinner in Kansas City to meet author John Green who had a new book for teens titled “Looking for Alaska.” The week prior I had been diagnosed with breast cancer, but hadn’t met with any … Continue reading
Are you ready for the holidays?
I am VERY close and will be ready when Christmas comes on Sunday. One gift card to buy. It and one other gift to wrap…then I’m DONE! This was on Tumblr today and I love it: The Twelve Shoppers of Christmas. Which one are you? I am a mix of shopping all year and a little shopping on line for last minute gifts. I used to have all my gifts bought by Thanksgiving, but this has been a very busy year. The grandsons are coming over on Saturday to make Grandma’s Famous Candy Cane cookies. At least that’s what the … Continue reading
Holiday Scents
The holidays have special smells that I look for, like fresh cut pines, sugar cookies, cinnamon, cranberry bread, sweaty shoppers, new plastic toys, spiced cider, peppermint and then there’s the wet dog smell that snow covered hounds bring in on their fur. Sorry, that one popped in without warning. The sense of smell is one of those things you count on for many things. Is the bacon done? How about the bread? Crap, something is burning. I guess you can tell I associate the holidays with cooking, baking, shopping, decorating and dogs (they are part of the family). And we … Continue reading
Christmas Shopping
BUY BOOKS!! Take time to pick a book for someone you love (or like) for Christmas. They’ll be glad you did.
