Keeping Menopause Classy
I gotta tell you I'm not digging this menopause thing. It's painful, lumpy, awkward, and odd. There are also smells. Years ago, I put together a whole list of the [...]
Music for the Mid
Things have been alternately busy and pokey lately, in that way that culminates in having too much to do one day and not caring to do anything at all the [...]
Writing Slowly but Surely
I seem to be in a good writing groove at the moment (knock on wood, fingers crossed, step on a cat... wait, no). I've hit a pocket of ideas for [...]
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 [...]