Here's the second in my column about reading books to Lily.

http://www.tcextra.com/news/publish/compass/The_Reading_Life/1732900.shtml

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I feel like I'm starting to be able to keep my head above water. Lily is crawling and very independent. She's great at playing by herself (except when she's extremely clinging and only wants to be held). She's sleeping longer and more regularly (except when she wakes up every two hours or decides 3 a.m. is playtime). I'm tired but not always ( Read more... )

Here's the first of my columns about reading 1,000 books with Lily. I'm happy with the column, but the photo that ran with it makes me look like an alien. Lily looks cute, though. The photos don't make it online, though. That should change with the new website that should be rolled out in the near future (lotta "shoulds" there ( Read more... )

I had a breakthrough last night, wherein I sat myself down and finished reading my NANOWRIMO novel from 2007. As I remembered, I was just beginning to figure out the plot around 40,000 words. And there isn't as much crap as I remembered, though there is a lot that needs to be fixed ( Read more... )

Okay, I forced myself to read a scene from last year's novel to get an idea for a short story. And I did. Here are a few notes ( Read more... )

Here it is Nov. 3 and I haven't written a word of fiction. And it's not looking good for the next few days, unless I get up early to write. Wait, I'm getting up early to vote tomorrow, so make that super-early ( Read more... )

I made an overdue realization today that I could listen to my iPod while I design pages. My desk is in the news room "bull pen" (hard to think of our operation as having a bull pen, but I guess that's what it's traditionally called), so I don't play music unless there's no one around. Not everyone is so considerate ( Read more... )

I can't believe next week is Halloween. I don't even have a pumpkin yet. Well, not one to carve.

I don't think I'm going to do NaNo this year because I just don't feel a novel in me. I finally opened up what I wrote last year and read the first couple of pages. They didn't suck like I remembered and there was actually a line in there that made ( Read more... )