Heather Ayris Burnell

It's finally quiet around the house and I thought I'd get to work. But what to do? Should I link some stuff up on my website? Probab...

I was looking through the documents on my computer today and found this. It's the opening paragraph to a query letter that my husband wr...

One evening not too long ago I was home writing while my family was out fishing. A crazy-huge storm burst in. It rained so hard that I was s...

I had never really thought about it before--my book, Bedtime Monster, being influenced by another book. As I was listening to a talk about W...

Someone asked what our special place to write was during #writechat on Twitter a couple of Sundays ago. Yes, I'm a super-slow blog poste...

I went into the pharmacy the other day. It's my favorite shop in town, if I can ignore the dead animals hanging on the walls everywhere....

they'd be running up the hills searching desperately for signals for their cell phones; going into mad tantrums because their blackberri...

I had to fill out an agricultural survey the other day for our mountain property. It was long and complex and really had nothing to do with ...

I ran into a conundrum at dinner tonight. I said gravy is my favorite food. Then my daughter wondered if gravy is an actual "food"...

My mother-in-law is on a new diet every time we see her. She’s done the all meat diet, the raw food diet, and numerous other diets, most wit...

It can be windy in the mountains. We’ve been through a lot of blowy days. But it’s never been anything like it was today. When I got up and ...

Even though Halloween is past I wanted to share with you about the best costume ever. A brave and crazy friend of mine is in a band. He play...

I've been tagged by Jumbled Ramblings and now must follow the rules of the meme because, well, I like her. And it never occurs to me to ...