2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Pockets Part One: A Story (Sort Of)

This is a segment of a short story I am currently working on (“currently” is herein defined as “in a state of ongoing activity”; “ongoing” is herein defined as “started but not yet finished – teehee”; “teehee” is herein defined as “the ultimate Jill-Elizabethism). As you may have noticed with the last post and now […]

The Happiest Place on Earth

This is a piece I wrote about a month ago when, in an attempt to put some fire into me, Frank asked me to write him a description of my Happy Place (i.e., “my” hammock on “my” private island at “my” hotel in Aruba). This is my attempt to describe it. At the end, you […]

The Magnum Opus

So I have decided to start including weekly book reviews in my blog-o-mania as another way to keep myself writing/thinking about writing and to make sure I keep reading regularly. Plus, I like telling people what I think (teehee) and proselytizing about excellent things I read. Each entry will have a theme I think, with […]

My Own Obituary

So here I sit, watching the Sabres game with Rick and the kids, and they do a moment of silence for Richard Martin. We didn’t know what happened to him, so I Googled it (seriously, what on earth did we do before Google?!). Apparently, he died suddenly of a heart attack while driving today – […]

On Platforms, Bios, and Being “Remarkable” – aka, Lots to Do

So I have been doing some research on the whole setting-up-a-website thing. Turns out that as an aspiring author, I have to do a great many things. In no particular order, these are a mere smattering of the things I apparently have to do:

Develop a platform to sell myself, of which a website and […]