Comcast has told me, basically, take it or leave it.  My bill has nearly doubled in twelve months.  I was just told there are no options to reduce the bill that won't also reduce my service to very, very basic (as in only local) channels. Oh, and I am the one who must make an 80-mile round trip to return their equipment to their office.  Because, ( Read more... )

I finally gave in.

This week, these blocks of time, were supposed to be for writing.  Catching up on projects that were behind schedule.  Launching the rewrite of SAND.  Little tweaks to CHANT.  For the past two days, I've kinda sorta maybe achieved something that could--in the right light and if one were indulgent--be called progress.

But really, I ( Read more... )

I dropped Dev off at law enforcement camp.  Our agreement was that if his roommate was already there, I'd just put whatever I was carrying in his room, give him a quick hug, and be on my way.  The maternal version of, "Later, dude."

And that's what happened.

I wasn't five minutes into the drive home when I decided I was a horrible mother, I hadn't ( Read more... )

After numerous false starts, lots of deleting, and a great deal of pacing while reading aloud, I think I've finally settled into the right voice for the stress book.  I want this and the other texts in the series to be conversational and easy to read as well as educational.  I want them to have the same tone as the in-person workshops.

The other ( Read more... )

Yeesh.  For the last two weeks, I've felt as if I'm spinning my wheels and making no progress on anything ( Read more... )

The second half of Chapter 4 sucks ( Read more... )