Suzanne James

I woke up early this morning. I lay quietly, listening. The normal morning silence was broken by the sound of birds.  The sound of spring. I love spring. We cut down our crab apple tree last year, so I won’t have the show of white flowers, but we are planting a cherry tree in its […]

Sometimes it is hard to think of writer’s lives being the same as everyone else’s. For the most part, they are not. We travel more, and meet people. Sometimes it feels like we live in separate dimensions. However, we still have the same ol’ problems, bills due, and needing to work out a living.
I have […]

Haggis Ingredients:
1 sheep’s stomach bag
1 sheep’s pluck - liver, lungs and heart
3 onions 
1 cup beef Suet 
1 cup  oatmeal
salt and black pepper
a pinch of cayenne
150mls of stock/gravy
 An interesting fact about Haggis is that it is the old Scottish version of mac&cheese - a simple food for peasants.  You could celebrate the tradition by making a meat pie, […]

I am not going to turn this into a ‘learn how to work at home’ blog. If you want to learn how to work at home then visit one of my home based business blogs.  www.wealthy-writer.com is a new blog that I am setting up to help writers turn their hobby into a paid career.  http://work-at-home-guru.blogspot.com/ is written […]

A plaid is about 12′ long. I tried to describe how Gillian would have worn it in the book, kilted, so that she could work.  A long linen shirt was worn under the plaid. It was wound around and held tight by a wide black belt.
The plaid was long enough that it could serve as […]