Happy Holidays, Dear Reader! I’m A. Catherine Noon, and you can call me Noony. I’m back after an extended hiatus and just in time for… flood warnings! Huh? Yup. The weather service is monitoring our area for flooding through Sunday. I had to cancel, or at least most likely will do so, a party we […]
A. Catherine Noon here, sending you greetings from suddenly snow-bound Chicago in celebration of St. Paddy’s Day! I hope you are warm and safe, wherever in the world you are. I’m here to talk about something of vital importance: food. Specifically, dinner. Well, a dinner entree. Corned Beef. Gom. One of my favorite things in […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a very happy St. Patrick’s Day! Do you have the luck o’ the Irish? Why not find out, and enter the Grand Prize drawing for a $100 USD Amazon gift card? Or the prize drawing to win something from me or my fellow participating authors? You’ll be glad you […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you continued festivities for St. Patrick’s Day from a suddenly snow-blanketed Chicago. Yesterday it was sunny but a bit chilly. Today, there are more than three inches of snow on the ground. Go home, weather. You’re drunk. But I digress. As I was putting together my list for my posts […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day week! All week, I and my fellow Romance Studio authors will regale you with essays, excerpts, and all sorts of fun stuff for our week-long party. Be sure you enter the grand prize drawing as well as the drawing for prizes from participating authors. […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a very happy St. Patrick’s Day week. I’m fourth generation Irish American and when I was a kid, I voraciously devoured anything I could get my hands on that talked about the history of the country of my ancestors. Nowadays, we have images like the upcoming Wonder Woman […]
A. Catherine Noon here, getting ready to kick off a week of St. Patrick’s Day fun! I’ve got stuff about the history of Ireland, travel, food, books, dance, and even calligraphy. I’m so excited, I can’t wait. But first, I wanted to share with you writers out there, whether you’re a professional author or a brand […]
A. Catherine Noon here, signing off with my last post for the Valentine’s Day. I’d like to thank the lovely folks at The Romance Studio for hosting us. If you are a writer or reader of romance, you owe it to yourself to check out their site. They’ve got a lot of great stuff and […]
A. Catherine Noon here, and our Valentine’s Day party is coming to a close. But before we sign off, I wanted to talk about fantasy for a moment. We read romance for many reasons, among them is the hope that a happy ending is always at the end and that our characters, with whom we’ve […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a continued Happy Valentine’s Day. I thought we could turn our minds to our memories, and mine them for our favorite dates. One of mine was when we took a ghost tour in Galena, Illinois, several years ago. We met downtown and wandered around the outside of the buildings, […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a very Happy Valentine’s Day. When I was preparing my list of topics for the party, I got to thinking about romance – not because it’s Valentine’s Day, per se, but because we are all romance writers and readers, and this is the Romance Studio, after all! In writing […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a very Happy Valentine’s Day. Now, I know not everyone loves this holiday to bits. Maybe you think it’s just a “Hallmark holiday;” maybe you’re lovelorn and angry that the world seems to be having romantic twosomes and leaving you out in the cold. Whatever the reason, you’re not […]
A. Catherine Noon here, and it’s time to talk about the most serious subject of all: toys. I was reading a book by Julia Cameron recently, and she said offhand something about how even CEO’s close their doors and play “with the secret toys on their desks.” Boy, did that phrase jump out at me. Wouldn’t […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a continuing Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of Monday being the traditional start of the work week, I thought I’d talk a bit about elevating our work. I came across a very simple saying or prayer in Sarah Ban Breathnach’s groundbreaking book, Simple Abundance: A powerful set of blessings that I […]
A. Catherine Noon here, with something a little different as we come up on Valentine’s Day. You know the old saying in English, “Actions speak louder than words”? Like so many of us, I’ve been watching recent events with a dawning horror and want to get involved. The first way was to knit so-called “pussyhats,” […]
A. Catherine Noon here, with my first Monday post of the day. I don’t know about you, but when Monday rolls around, I’m usually caught by surprise – even though Monday comes the same time every week. What is it about starting the work week that so discombobulates me? Even the full time homemakers I […]
A. Catherine Noon here, with my final post on a lovely sunny Sunday – and I have a very important topic for you: manners! It’s a natural outgrowth of my previous post, “The Power of Gratitude,” where we talked about keeping a gratitude journal and being thankful for the abundance in our lives. Next, though, […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day. My theme today is related to things we might do on Sundays, and I want to take a moment to thank you for being here. And that’s my subject for today – gratitude. When we take a moment out of the hectic flow of the […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you’re enjoying the party – and remember to enter our drawing in the right sidebar. Now, for our topic – my theme today has been on things to do on a Sunday. I’d like to touch on weekly reflection. As I mentioned in […]
A. Catherine Noon here, on a lazy Sunday afternoon in my part of the world. The sun is out, though it’s cold, and the animals are napping. Sunday, for many folks, is a day for contemplation – whether that be in a church or other place of worship. For others, it’s Saturday. Many, many spiritual […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a very happy Sunday in our continuing Valentine’s Day party. Did you remember to enter our Grand Prize drawing for an Amazon gift card for $100 USD? The link is in the right sidebar when you’re viewing this post on the web; just below it you can enter to […]
A. Catherine Noon here. Let’s get real, shall we? After the divorce, or the cancer, or the dysfunctional family, or the kids’ trouble, or any of a hundred other disasters, who’s there? Our friends. Gal pals. Sisters from other mothers. And they quite literally save our lives – studies show that women live longer than […]
A. Catherine Noon here, wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day. I’m here to talk to you about puppy love. No, really. I love puppies. And kittens. I particularly love curling up on the couch with a kitten on my chest; my cat Nadya spent most of her kittenhood inside my pajama top. I know it’s […]
A. Catherine Noon here, and it’s time to talk about ourselves. Self-care, baby. It’s Valentine’s Day, the time we turn our thoughts about love – and self-love is one of the most important parts of that love. It’s like they tell you on an airplane: in the event of a loss of cabin pressure, put […]
A. Catherine Noon here, celebrating and wishing you a very Happy Valentine’s Day. What’s a traditional Valentine’s Day gift? Lingerie, right? So I figured, why not look up some awesome lingerie ideas? And then someone on my Facebook feed shared a doozie. (What? I was quickly checking Facebook in case something interesting happened… I can’t […]
