I used to blog at theweirdgirl.com. All of that writing lives here now.
Mark Your Progress and Take a Deep Breath
I wrote this a year and a half ago... "Occasionally I come up with mottos for my life. It's entertaining and sometimes pithy. Or maybe they're just mottos for the [...]
More Cooking for Slackers
Anyone who knows me (or has visited this blog before) knows I am not a cook. I can bake up a storm and make anything with sugar, I'm just not [...]
Babies to Menopause Went Faster than I Expected
Well, this blog has unofficially gone from having a baby to entering menopause. I say "unofficially" because while my hormone levels are technically well in the grooving to the oldies [...]
Redheaded Barbies Rock
I was cruising curvy Barbies (because yay! real women!) on Amazon, and of course I go for the redheaded one, even though she's not actually as much of a redhead [...]
My Time at SFWC 2019
On Valentine's weekend I attended the 2019 San Francisco Writers Conference (SFWC). I've gone to this conference three or four times now and I always come away inspired... but I [...]
Where is the Chocolate?
I have been slogging through loglines/elevator pitches for the last couple of weeks. I have discovered that it is much easier to write a logline before you write the actual [...]
The weight of light on a rainy day
Sometimes I get things in my head that I just need to get out into the world. I suspect a lot of people do. Ideas that bite and nibble at [...]
Job Opening
It's that time of year again. New year, same old crap to sort through! I really really really want an intern to clean out my email for me. And yes, [...]
Silience
Christmas is over and I am sadly relieved. It is always such a rush and a crash and a conundrum to get everything DONE! And while you are doing so [...]
And that’s how my back gave me super powers
I've had muscle spasms in my back on and off for the last couple of months, but I gotta say this week... this week has been a doozy. I've been [...]
Better Question
Last week I had the rare occasion of an unplanned day. That’s not to say that I didn’t have things to do, because I always have things to do. It [...]
Drips and Drabs
I’ve completely pooped out on NaNoWriMo this year. I participated a couple of years ago for a serious writing push for The Byways (previously named Through the Holes), and it [...]