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Sierra Donovan: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015. HAPPILY EVER AFTER . OR NOT? As I believe I've mentioned, I'm in the business of helping characters live happily ever after. But I've got to admit, some of my favorite stories – even my favorite love. Stories – don't always meet that criteria. Sometimes a tragic or poignant ending is just what's needed. When you start with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, it would be hard to go wrong. And the writers don't go wrong. They even have the guts to resist working out an unlik...Label...
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Sierra Donovan: Love: The Prime Motivator
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Thursday, September 11, 2014. Love: The Prime Motivator. 8220; Oh, I don’t care much for romance.”. Those are words that romance writers – and readers – often hear. The funny thing is, it’s hard to find a good story without it. Last night my husband and I watched a classic ghost story, “The Uninvited.” A man and his sister move into a haunted house. Sort of an unusual domestic arrangement. Why are they brother and sister? I don’t think so. What about action films? The leading man in “Double Indemni...
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Sierra Donovan: First Tree of Fall
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Thursday, September 23, 2010. First Tree of Fall. I hereby pronounce this Victorville's first tree of fall . in my neighborhood, at least. Fall gets off to a slow start here in Southern California, maybe even more so in the High Desert. A few days ago, this little tree was aflame with red and orange leaves. Unfortunately, the wind got to it before me and my camera. But as you can see in the next photo, the trees stretching off behind it are all still fully engulfed in green. View my complete profile.
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Sierra Donovan: December 2013
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013. 365 Days Till Christmas. I will honor Christmas in my heart. And try to keep it all the year.". Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. I've heard those words, or some slight variation of them, at least seven times this Christmas season. There's a reason the story is so addictive and so re-watchable. As many times as I've seen it, I always come away a bit inspired, vowing to apply more of the lessons it teaches to my own life. It's a stirring message. It's ...
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Sierra Donovan: July 2009
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Sunday, July 19, 2009. It ended about two weeks ago, at least as far as most stores are concerned. Time to blow out those needless bathing suits, beach towels and flip-flops. Never mind the fact that here in the High Desert, we're in the midst of the year's first full-blown heat wave. 109 degrees? Must be a figment of our imagination. I know, it's a well-worn rant. Still, why is it that stores can only stand to have current seasonal merchandise for about two weeks before they usher in the next season?
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Sierra Donovan: July 2014
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Friday, July 18, 2014. Weird Al, We Salute You! Champions of good spelling, grammar and punctuation have a new hero: Weird Al Yankovic. At the risk of making Weird Al cringe: Who’da thunk it? The biggest media attention-getter from Weird Al’s newest album, “Mandatory Fun,” has been “Tacky” (his parody of. You can watch it here. And the Oxford comma (although he'll let you slide on that one). Even tries to educate the masses about the correct use of the word it’s. Monday, July 14, 2014. I borrow from my l...
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Sierra Donovan: 365 Days Till Christmas
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013. 365 Days Till Christmas. I will honor Christmas in my heart. And try to keep it all the year.". Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. I've heard those words, or some slight variation of them, at least seven times this Christmas season. There's a reason the story is so addictive and so re-watchable. As many times as I've seen it, I always come away a bit inspired, vowing to apply more of the lessons it teaches to my own life. It's a stirring message. It's ...
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Sierra Donovan: September 2014
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Thursday, September 11, 2014. Love: The Prime Motivator. 8220; Oh, I don’t care much for romance.”. Those are words that romance writers – and readers – often hear. The funny thing is, it’s hard to find a good story without it. Last night my husband and I watched a classic ghost story, “The Uninvited.” A man and his sister move into a haunted house. Sort of an unusual domestic arrangement. Why are they brother and sister? I don’t think so. What about action films? The leading man in “Double Indemni...
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Sierra Donovan: Weird Al, We Salute You!
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Friday, July 18, 2014. Weird Al, We Salute You! Champions of good spelling, grammar and punctuation have a new hero: Weird Al Yankovic. At the risk of making Weird Al cringe: Who’da thunk it? The biggest media attention-getter from Weird Al’s newest album, “Mandatory Fun,” has been “Tacky” (his parody of. You can watch it here. And the Oxford comma (although he'll let you slide on that one). Even tries to educate the masses about the correct use of the word it’s. Her latest book, Do You Believe in Santa?
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Sierra Donovan: Fact vs. Fiction
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Monday, July 14, 2014. Fact vs. Fiction. So THAT's how you two met! When I told people that my first novel was a romance set at a radio station, I got that reaction a lot. Yes, my husband is a disc jockey; yes, we did work at the same radio station together for seven years. But that happened after we were married. I plant pieces of myself into my stories, and I love it. But if people were to assume that everything in my books really happened to me . brrr! I wonder if people who write murder mysteries run...
