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 [...]
The Facebook Dilemma (not about the TOS)
by Shannon on February 20, 2009 in General
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 [...]
Beware of the Demon Mini
by Shannon on February 19, 2009 in Cats, kids or the dog
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 [...]
Random miscellanea
by Shannon on February 17, 2009 in General
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 [...]
The secret is out…
by Shannon on February 15, 2009 in Cats, kids or the dog
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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