Posted by Leslie on May 28th, 2008 | 6 Comments
{Edition XXX} Living near Washington, DC., I am lucky enough to have so many places to visit and fun things to do. This past weekend the family went to Brookside Gardens, during their annual Butterfly Exhibit, Wings of Fancy. While inside an enclosed greenhouse, the butterflies are free to dart and land as they like. We must be careful where we walk as to not step on them! Abby, one of my 9-year-olds, decided she would wear a green shirt and brown shorts to look like a tree. Seems absurd, but it must have worked. The hand you’ll see in some of the pictures are hers, where they landed on their own (we aren’t allowed to reach or handle the butterflies). The pictures themselves aren’t of high quality, since they were taken with my Blackberry, but they were lovely enough to share! Which butterfly or photo is your favorite? I list mine below…
Thirteen Butterfly Photos
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And my favorite, Abby with a “friend.”
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Posted by Leslie on May 28th, 2008 | No Comments
In celebration of my new release, A TARNISHED HEART, I’m drawing a name from those who are signed up for my newsletter or have commented on any post during the month of May. The winner will receive a heart keychain, jewelry, and more! Only a few more days, so please stop by and say hello or add your name to my list!
Posted by Leslie on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments
all weekend long…sigh. In a way, it was nice to not have that pull of I MUST CHECK MY EMAIL AND EVERYTHING ELSE ON THE WEB. I actually spent time in my garden, and with my kids, and washed some clothes. On the other hand, AACCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!! It couldn’t have happened at a worse time! Friday was my BLOG DAY at Writers At Play and I never got the chance to respond to any comments! Now, several new posts have gone up over there. Plus, I had a reader from Australia email me about A TARNISHED HEART and I didn’t see it for several days. Anyway, I had a signing at a friend’s house on Friday night. It was fun. Sold about nine books (both ATH and PRICE). I also got two new books in the mail to read - YAY! - and I’ll write about them once I finished reading. Other than that, I’m scurrying to read and catch up! Sorry I was MIA for the whole weekend!
Posted by Leslie on May 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments
{Edition XXIX}
Thirteen Quotes on Sex
1. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
2. “I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.” ~ George Burns
3. “A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.” ~ Joan Rivers
4. “In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.” ~ Marlene Dietrich
5. “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” ~ Aldous Leonard Huxley
6. “Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can’t even get into my own pants” ~ Anonymous
7. “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.” ~ Sophia Loren
8. “Sex is an emotion in motion” ~ Mae West
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9. “Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.” ~ Woody Allen
10. “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” ~ Unknown
11. “Sex on television can’t hurt you unless you fall off.” ~ Unknown
12. “Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can’t help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, “How can he want me the way I look in the morning?” It’s because we can’t see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.” ~ Andy Rooney
13. “Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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Posted by Leslie on May 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’m the featured author over at Author Cookies, where I gave the recipe for my super-quick, super-easy cookie recipe! YUM!!
Posted by Leslie on May 20th, 2008 | No Comments
I will sign your book personally and mail it to you, along with a little gift of some sort! On the hunt for a juicy story and a promotion, Erin Price is determined to prove she can move beyond her past mistakes. An eerie Victorian house in the middle of nowhere and a sexy stranger hiding secrets could be her ticket to success. Racing against time and a competing journalist, Erin breaks every rule to be near the stranger. When she discovers the truth, she’ll be forced to decide if her career is more important than her heart. Read more…
The Price of Discovery ~ Samhain Publishing
Posted by Leslie on May 20th, 2008 | No Comments
Stop on over and read my interview and maybe even leave a comment! LOL!
Posted by Leslie on May 19th, 2008 | No Comments
From Behind the Editor’s Desk did an interview with me today, since A TARNISHED HEART was just shipped to my house. WOOT! It’s SO cool to hold a copy of my book in my hands. Wow. Don’t forget I have personally autographed copies for sale from this website. Just check out my homepage!
Posted by Leslie on May 19th, 2008 | No Comments
My oldest turned 16 yesterday. Wow. I mean…wow. She surprised us by not wanting a huge party with all sorts of hoopla. In fact, she really didn’t say much about how to celebrate it. So I took it upon myself. I told her I was inviting the family over (grandparents, aunts and uncles) for a barbeque. What she didn’t know was that I also invited some of her friends, as well as neighbors and friends’ parents who had known her since she was little. I can’t believe it. I pulled it off. She expected to see family but was surprised to see the others. Her friends and boyfriend actually kept the secret! And, no, she didn’t get a car for her birthday! But I am buying her a Juicy Couture tote purse off eBay for her. Next birthday in my house? My 40th!
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Posted by Leslie on May 14th, 2008 | 6 Comments
{Edition XXVIII}
Top Thirteen Bizarre Experiments
Taken from the Museum of Hoaxes - although these experiments were not hoaxes and did actually occur! Click over to read the full accounts and the other seven experiments listed!
1. Elephants on Acid - What happens if you give an elephant LSD? On Friday August 3, 1962, a group of Oklahoma City researchers decided to find out.
2. Obedience - Imagine that you’ve volunteered for an experiment, but when you show up at the lab you discover the researcher wants you to murder an innocent person.
3. Two-headed Dogs - In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog.
4. The Initiation of Heterosexual Behavior in a Homosexual Male - Test whether repeated stimulation of the septal region could transform a homosexual man into a heterosexual.
5. The Isolated Head of a Dog - What could be more horrific than creating a two-headed dog? What about keeping the severed head of a dog alive apart from its body!
6. Human-Ape Hybrid - For decades dark rumors circulated alleging that the Soviets had conducted experiments to try to create a human-ape hybrid by breeding chimpanzees and humans, but it wasn’t until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of Russian archives that the rumors were confirmed.
7. The Stanford Prison Experiment - Philip Zimbardo was curious about why prisons are such violent places. Is it because of the character of their inhabitants, or is it due to the corrosive effect of the power structure of the prisons themselves?
8. Facial expressions while decapitating a rat - In 1924 Carney Landis, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Minnesota, designed an experiment to study whether emotions evoke characteristic facial expressions.
9. The Vomit-Drinking Doctor - How far would you go to prove a theory? Stubbins Ffirth, a doctor-in-training living in Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century, went further than most. Way further.
10. Beneficial Brainwashing - Dr. Ewen Cameron believed he had come up with a cure for schizophrenia. His theory was that the brain could be reprogrammed to think in healthy ways by forcibly imposing new thought patterns on it.
11. Monkey-Head Transplant - When Vladimir Demikhov unveiled his two-headed dogs in 1954, it inspired a strange kind of surgical arms race (or rather, head race) between the two superpowers.
12. The Remote-Controlled Bull - An experimental demonstration of the ability of his “stimoceiver” to manipulate behavior. The stimoceiver was a computer chip, operated by a remote-control unit, that could be used to electrically stimulate different regions of an animal’s brain.
13. The Ape and the Child - What if an animal were raised by humans — as a human. Would it eventually act like a human?
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