Archive | February, 2009

But it's Monday!

You wouldn’t know it around here. The kids are on vacation this week, a vacation I HATE because we don’t ski so we’re just trapped inside in crappy weather. I have an extra kid, too, because my sister’s come to hang out. Plus, the husband decided that, by the time he got the snow cleaned [...]

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The Facebook Dilemma (not about the TOS)

Interesting place, Facebook. But apparently authors are supposed to have a myspace or Facebook page and, since I’d rather never eat another Dorito in my life than deal with myspace again, I did the Facebook thing. I’ve been using it a little while and, to be honest, I still don’t get it. Nothing I’ve seen [...]

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Beware of the Demon Mini

Mini: My ears are bald. Me: You and the Short Kid keep wrestling around in that fleece blanket. I told you the static would knot up your hair. Mini: Did you forget the part about my being Chinese royalty? Me: Of course not, Your Royal Hiney. Mini: The cats are laughing at me. Me: At [...]

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Random miscellanea

It never fails—as soon as you hand something to somebody to read, you are overwhelmed by the desperate need to change it. I should disappear the kid and make him a returning soldier. Some days writing is nothing more than barely contained madness. Real life has been kicking my ass for the last ten days [...]

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The secret is out…

Shannon Stacey is really just a pseudonym for… (I set my lapdesk down to run outside for a few minutes and this is how I found her when I came in, looking for all the world like she was arm-chair editing.)

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