02.14.2025
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I’m sick so I’ll be celebrating Valentine’s Day by watching some really ridiculous reality TV with Innocent Husband and the bad cats. Hopefully he will remember to buy me a little cake.
I’ll tell him now not to forget, just to be sure…
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02.11.2025
Do you think it’s odd that I ask my cats about their opinions on the stories I’m writing and what the characters are doing?
I don’t either.
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02.10.2025
Happy Valentine’s Day!
If you need a little literary love, light, and laughter in your life, you might try these books.
(Yes, I really tried hard to add the alliteration here. It’s not very good. But, it’s after midnight, and this is the time when I am easily, and oddly, entertained by sentence structure and word choice. It is clearly time for me to go to bed.)
Only on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cathy+lamb&crid=80Y453OZUH8U&sprefix=cathy+lamb%2Caps%2C159&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
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01.21.2025
When I was a little girl living in Huntington Beach, California my father, an engineer, received a sabbatical from work.
For some reason, my parents, Jim and Bette, both decided it would be a splendid idea if they took four kids and two dogs camping up and down the California and Oregon coast for six weeks.
One dog, Frisky, tried to bite people, the other, Alphy, tried to bite other dogs. They weren’t very pleasant.
Some people might say my parents lost their minds ever so slightly…
CLICK ON THE LINK to read for free on Substack.
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01.21.2025
How not to read a book: Choose a book to read that everyone loves, NY Times best seller, with high rankings.
Read part of the book. Find that you’re totally not into it. Persevere anyhow to 45% read on your kindle.
Force yourself to read it over the holidays when you SHOULD be reading a book you love, that is light and sweet, and that you can read at night to quiet the celebrations and all the cooking and cleaning you did.
Stop reading the book entirely because reading this book makes you NOT WANT TO READ AT ALL. Take a short break. THEN decide you really should read the ending to find out what happens. Start at 85% on the kindle.
Realise you don’t know enough after reading from 85 – 90% to understand what’s going on and BACK UP (AGAIN!) to 60%. Try to make sense out of confusion until 70% of the book is read.
Lose track of the characters and have no idea who this new person is on the page and wonder what in the world is going on.
BACK UP a third time to 50%. Read it through to the end, slowly, because, again, you’re not that into it. Lose time reading a book you would love which is so frustrating.
Be really mad if you get hit by a bus tomorrow and you’ve spent all these hours reading a book you don’t like that much.
Ask yourself WHY IS THIS BOOK SO LONG?
Finally get done, sigh with relief, lean back and know that you are “literary-free” now and find two more SUPER FUN books to read and find your reading joy again.
Yep. Don’t read a book like I did – backwards and upside down. Put it aside. Pick up another one. Off ya go. Happy 2025 to you.
And no. I’m REALLY not talking about my own books. I promise. BUT, if you don’t like them, you should put them down. I hope, hope, hope that doesn’t happen.
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01.07.2025
I’m starting to write book two of “Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid.”
The blue journal is the first journal, the second journal is pink and says, ironically, BRIGHT IDEAS.
I hope I have some bright ideas. I DEFINITELY need those…
“Ten Kids” is set in the neighborhood I grew up in for 10 years in Huntington Beach, California, on Deauville Drive. It’s not based on my own childhood, but I threw a lot of my childhood into it.
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