I was on the radio this morning again (thus the late blog post), thanks to an old friend by the name of Rusty, and got the chance to also record a little sound bite about my booksigning tomorrow night in Flint, MI for the local station. Yay!

And today I'm also on Lifetime TV's blog with Michelle Buonfiglio and her Bellas–stop by and say hi. We're talking about the multi-hero aspect in romances and whether it's a good thing or not. (You have to register to comment.)

I'm also visiting with other writers at the Writing Playground, also talking about multi-heroes, from the writing perspective. Would love to see some friendly faces over there too.

And finally, if you want to hear me having a good time with the WHMI morning crew, pop on over to the Press page on my Web site and click on the link under Colleen in the News to hear last week's interview.

Whew! And, on top of this, it's a snow day for the kids–for the second day in a row.

ARGHHHH!!!

OH, I mean, yay! My kids are home! I get to see them all day! 

Today is Ash Wednesday, and Christians all over the world begin the forty days of Lent in preparation for Easter.

Part of the preparation is fasting–a common enough theme in many world religions. Ramadan and Yom Kippur are just two other examples.

A friend sent me a thought-provoking poem on different ways to fast that I think make sense for all of us–Christian or no.

I'm taking a break from my incessant promo for the release of The Bleeding Dusk to share a few lines of the poem, and I hope that you'll indulge me through the next six weeks if I take a few other detours from my regular blog topics to do so, on occasion.

I think if we all paid attention to some of these types of fasting, we'd have a happier world. So I challenge you–Lenten participant or not–to give it a shot, today. Tomorrow. Maybe for a week. See how it works.

Just for today, try to: 

Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.

Fast from anger; feast on patience. 

Are you with me? 

I'll be adding to this list as they come available.

Stainless Steel Droppings (Carl V., who speaks out for men–and women–afraid of reading romance novels.)

Get thee to a voting machine and to a bookstore, and that will make me very happy.

And what am I doing here on Super Tuesday? Well, besides being book release day, it's also my wedding anniversary (14 years), so I'll be lazing around, thinking about how much I absolutely adore my Music Man.

Well, maybe not.

Not that I don't adore him, but I've got other things to do besides moon about. I'm guest-blogging at Yoho A Writer's Life for Me, and I hear that the infamous Bam is going to post her review of Dusk today (ulp). 

I've got a volunteer stint at my son's school today as well. I'll probably head out to a couple of bookstores and see what's what. And, oh yes, I'll be getting some writing done.

I really must do that. Gardella Five awaits!

Have a great day! Let me know if/where you see Dusk, and if the other books are there with it.

Thanks in advance for all your support! 

I'm thinking she didn't get any from that hunk-o-man last night.

You?