I cleared the domestic decks in order to hit the proposal I’m working on hard, so I’ll be type-type-typing away today. (Especially since I lost fifteen minutes last night tearing my hair out and swearing as I tried to remove a rogue period from my document. Even with the formatting display turned on I couldn’t [...]

Yesterday I confessed my intense hatred of wind chimes, so today I thought maybe I’d explain that a little. First, if you are a lover of wind chimes, please don’t be offended. It’s not personal. (Unless you move to my neighborhood and try to hang them. Then it’s personal.)
I was never attacked by rogue wind [...]

A little backstory: I don’t wake up to a traditional alarm clock. Never had and don’t believe I ever will. That beep beep beep doesn’t penetrate. Seriously, it could be a ten-wheeler backing into my house and I won’t wake up for the beep. Therefore, I use my cellphone as an alarm, since it’s plugged [...]

I love vacations and long weekends, and I’m dying for the end of school. That probably sounds weird, but I’m actually more productive when my kids are home.
For anybody interested, pictures of the Short Kid’s first solo ATV ride are up on the family blog. (I mean solo as in driving his own machine, not [...]

See you Monday!

I’m trying so very, very hard not to go postal on one of my kitties. They’re five now, and the torti one, Gizmo, has gone well beyond trying my patience.
She no longer pees in her litter box. She just goes wherever she pleases. Most often in some hidden corner of my recently remodeled—and carpeted—office. We [...]

(As I was starting to type this entry, I received the news CBS has cancelled The Unit. My devastation is so complete, incoherency might ensue.)
I’ve spent the last week or so mentally bouncing back and forth between my Super Sekrit single title contemporary and an Intrigue. I’m madly in love with both of them, so [...]

First, I’m at Romancing the Blog today, talking about the pitfalls of considering digital publishing a stepping stone to NY. Stop by!
I also updated the family’s ATV blog with some opening weekend pictures.
And finally, I DID IT! I’ve posted pictures of moose, both real and fake, a fox, and even a skunk named Barney, but [...]

Today’s my sixteenth wedding anniversary and, damn, that’s a long time. At this point I think we’ve gone through pretty much both sides of the vows—the richer and the poorer, the sickness and the health, the good times and the bad—and it looks like it’s going to stick.
Hey, in four years I’ll be forty and [...]

I told y’all about my epic walk to school yesterday. It probably doesn’t come as a surprise I semi-injured myself.
A little while after I left the computer yesterday morning, I noticed my left ankle was no longer flexing. It wasn’t hard to notice because I was walking rather crooked. Strangely, no pain. Over the course [...]