Stephanie Newton Books

The deadline book is in the bag. The mailbag, that is. And I’m breathing a huge sigh of relief that the first one is behind me! Today I’m catching up on all the correspondence that has piled up in the last two weeks and tomorrow planting flowers in my sadly neglected yard!

I finally saw Australia, the movie all my friends were talking about last summer. Oh my gosh. Now I know why. From the very beginning, I was hooked, grinning as Nicole Kidman as the very proper Lady Sara met the very rough, very handsome Drover. The movie was full of romantic cliches, [...]

It’s foggy outside today, really foggy, so much so that I could barely see the pool from the back door when I got up. I think that’s the way my brain looks like on the inside. Thoughts that should string together in some kind of sense are wandering around bumping into each other [...]

I live in Florida, the Sunshine State. I know to wear sunscreen, therefore, I don’t get sunburned very often. It was really windy and a little chilly yesterday, so at my son’s soccer games, I was pretty well covered up. Only my face and the bottom half of my legs, from the [...]

Where I was this time last year. Also where I’d really like to be right this minute, sipping a cafe au lait, eating my pain du chocolat.

Me: (choking)Kid 2: Are you okay? Me: I almost choked.Kid 2: Maybe you shouldn’t try to eat lying flat on the couch. Me: Smart-aleck.

This morning I got ready for church in a relatively stress-free zone. My kids are old enough to dress themselves. They had their clothes for church picked out yesterday and we all slept pretty late (my pastor husband has long since gotten over the fact that he doesn’t get to see them find [...]

I’ve been really jealous of the people who live on the other ponds in our neighborhood. They have ducks and turtles and stuff and ours was just…a pond. I even considered buying a couple of ducks for the pond. I love ducks. Maybe it goes back to the baby duck I [...]

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