You know those days when you wake up only to find out you're out of coffee AND toothpaste? When you wait for the bus in a fog of drizzle and a passing car sends a mud puddle up in the air and then down with a splash onto your head? Then at work everyone seems really mean and the vending machine eats your last dollar and the most interesting email of the day is a chain letter?

Well, at least in Nancyland it wasn't one of those days. I cleared my desk early, strapped on the hiking boots and hit the butt busting trails that scale the towering basalt cliffs rising high above the Columbia River. My mind cleared out, my legs are screaming and the endorphins make everything seem all rainbows and unicorns.

And then I came home to an email from my editor alerting me to a very excellent review of my new book, Big, Bigger, Biggest.

You can check it out here: http://wildaboutnaturewriters.blogspot.com/

Now everything's rainbows, unicorns AND chocolate cupcakes.

I love chocolate cupcakes....