Happy St. Patrick's Day

Thursday 13 - St.Pat's Sweet Treats

1.  Shamrock Cookies.

2. Chocolate-Irish Cream Cheesecake.  Get the recipe.

3. Irish Black Bun Shamrock Cookies.   Get the recipe. 

4. Irish Chocolate Ice Cream (You add a cup of Irish whiskey to chocolate ice cream.  Yeah, baby!)

5. Shamrock Milkshake Cupcakes.

6. Black & White Irish Cream Cupcakes.  Get the recipe. 

7. Chocolate Stout Shake.  (Chocolate stout beer + choc. fudge + vanilla bean ice cream + milk = YUMMY!)

8. Toffee-Coffee Brownies.  Get the recipe.

9.  St. Patty Cupcakes with green M&Ms

10. Dublin Eggnog.  (Eggnog + double-strength coffee + 6oz of Irish whiskey= wide awake fun)

11. Green beer.  I don't usually drink beer but thought I'd better put it on my list any ways.

12.  Rainbow Cupcakes. This recipe is so cool.  Check it out.

13. Toffee Shortbread.  Ah... buttery shortbread, a layer of toffee with chocolate topping.  Sigh.  A favorite sweet among families in Ireland.  Get the recipe. 

 

Time to curl up with a hot St. Patrick's Day romance from my good friend, Mari Freeman. 

But it now.

My Dog Maggie

March 13 is not only St. Patrick's Day but also the anniversary of when I adopted my dog Maggie.

 Shortly after my lab, Ruby was killed in a freak accident; I knew I had a heart full of love to give to another dog. So I went onto PetFinder.com and looked for a new lab. I came across Maggie's picture. She was called Rhonda at the time and because she wasn't spayed, I passed on her. However, a week later I came across her photo again, this time she was spayed so after a short discussion with hubby, we made an appointment to see her.

Actual photo from PetFinder.com

We drove a couple hours to where her rescue center was located.  We met several potential dogs before "Rhonda" was brought out.  They were lovely dogs, but I was too anxious to meet the one who caught my eye. 

When "Rhonda" came out, she trotted directly to me, sat on my feet and began licking my hand.  I knew we were meant to be together.

About a year and a half old, she had been dumped with her five puppies in December.  A farmer named Ron found her eating rotten corn in his field to stay alive for her babies during the bitter Michigan winter.  He took her and the pups to the rescue center.  The pups were weaned and mama got her health back.

She jumped into our truck without hesitation as if to say, "Let's go home."

We named her Maggie on the way home.  (Yes, the Rod Stewart song, Maggie May was playing.)  She's been an amazing member of our family.

First photo of Maggie in her new home.

My middle son even wrote and published about book about her when he was in 2nd grade. 
Feel free to check it out. 

It's available for purchase.
Print Format
Ebook Format
iTunes Book Format
Barnes & Noble Nook

Please consider adopting a rescue pet.

Visit PetFinder.com or you local animal rescues and shelters.

Adopt or be a foster parent to a shelter animal.

1ST CHAPTER & COVER CONTEST

Handcuffs & Silk is my story but it's Fiona Jayde's sensual cover art featuring the delicious Jimmy Thomas.

The 1st Chapter is in a contest as well as the cover over on
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Poll is open until Feb. 29.

Here's my shameless begging...please vote for Handcuffs & Silk....pretty please. Thank you.

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Handcuffs & Silk is my story but it's Fiona Jayde's sensual cover art featuring the delicious Jimmy Thomas that's in the February Cover Contest over on You Gotta Read Reviews. 

 
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Here's my shameless begging...please vote for Handcuffs & Silk....pretty please. Thank you.

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Slow It Down, Baby

Why slowing down in bed could help your sex life.

If you want to make sex a more sensual experience, slow down. Take your time. Banning the quickie from your sex life will have a startling and sensual effect, taking your lovemaking to the next level.
Slow sex isn't about endurance, marathon sessions or complicated positions. It's about really being there in the moment, enjoying one another fully. It's about taking the time to touch and to kiss. The point isn't just to have sex, but rather to feel real sensual joy.

"It's mutual pleasuring, not purposeful foreplay," Barry McCarthy, a clinical psychologist and coauthor of Rekindling Desire, explained to Ladies' Home Journal. Sex is not a commodity. It is not supposed to be time-efficient.

Create a bedroom that is a sanctuary for slow sex. Move the television to another room. Turn off the telephone. Shut down the computer. Give full attention to your lover. Install low-level romantic lighting, even if it's just a carefully-placed nightlight.

So what do you do when you slow down for "mutual pleasuring"?

Try the following:

• Massage
• Deep, lingering kisses
• Teasing with your fingers and mouth
• Touch that is by turns tender and erotic

While these may include orgasm, that is not the point. Instead, it's about building desire and intimacy.
Slow sex means learning how to give one another great pleasure. It is a soulful, intimate expression of your love that will make sex far more sensual. It will deepen your emotional, psychological and even spiritual bond with your lover. A quickie can't compete with that!

As Mae West said,

"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly."

Truths about Love in a Kid's Point of view

I love chatting with my three boys and their friends. 

Kids say the cutest things, especially the youngest ones. 

For Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share some of their thoughts on LOVE.

“I think you fall in love why you get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so painfull.”

“One person who has freckles finds somebody else who has freckles and they fall in love.”

“Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.”

“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it.  It takes too long.”

“No one is sure why people fall in love.  But I heard it has something to do with how you smell.  That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”

“Beauty is skin deep.  But how rich you are can last a long time.”

“Lovers hold hands.  They want to make sure their rings don’t fall of because they paid good money for them.”

“When people hold hands they are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the matchimony thing.”

“I’m in favor of love as long as it doesn’t happen when SpongeBob Squarepants is on TV.”

“Love is foolish…but I still might try it sometime.”

“To make a person fall in love with you, tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores.”

“Love with find you, even if you are trying to hide from it.  I’ve been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me.”

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”

Happy V-Day to my special guys... I love you!

Hey, I'm the guest speaker at the Montose Museum tonight. Program is at 7pm with refreshements after. Stop in. Pick up some tips on writing. I'm giving away a CD with three stories on it. 

Forbidden Pleasures, Forgiven Desires - Eliot Hastings

Peter was an assertive man, in complete control of his life and work. But in his closest relationships he was a natural submissive, and he had been searching for a dominant partner for as long as he could remember. Dissatisfied with his relationships, he had sought the services of a professional Mistress. Lisa enjoyed her work as a sadistic Dominatrix, exploiting his masochism and they soon became good friends. It seemed as if he had everything he needed, and his search was over. Then he met Suzy and fell in love with her, they were brought together by a quirk of fate. She had her own agenda, but there was something unspoken, something below the surface that drew them together, but would she love him? and if she did, would he be able to live a life denying his need to be dominated...

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Eliot Hastings lives in Warwickshire, England. He has been writing in technical publications and journals for nearly 20 years. His exciting new series of erotica stories span a period from the early seventies. They are based on the experiences of friends in the scene, and his own experiences when he first started living as a submissive.