This morning started out rough ( Read more... )

 Mercury's backwardness* continues to affect my household ( Read more... )

Rachel contacted the people in charge of setting up the blog roll, and the issue seems to be resolved. So that's a yay.

There are two more reviews of Song of Secrets up: For the Love of Fictional Worlds and Reading with Pixie, which is, of course, MY favorite because the blogger called out Gabe as their favorite character ( Read more... )

Uffdah, as they say around here.  Mason is back at school after three weeks hiatus, and every SINGLE Crossroads parent seemed to have forgotten how to use the parking lot. I'm lucky I'm not still there (or responsible for some car/child accident!)

This weekend, Mason spent part of his time at KidCON, which is naomikritzer's gaming gathering of friends.  Mason ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling very dutiful. So I went downstairs, made coffee, and put in a thousand words on Samurai High (my current WIP, of which I'm trying to get sample chapters ready for an editor who showed interest in the proposal by early March ( Read more... )

First of all, I'm completly bummed out.  We bought two new shubunkins (calico goldfish) at PetCo and happily brought them home.  They've been doing great after what seemed like the inital shock of being in a new place where the lights go on and off.  We named them Thor and Loki.

Thor is dead.

I was so shocked to discover Thor's lifeless body this ( Read more... )

I've got a lot to catch y'all up on. Friday was Mason's parent-teacher conference and, no surprise to anyone, Mason is a good student. I only wish he enjoyed school more. You can see in some of his assignments a certain lack of enthusiasm, though this semester, at least, he had one writing assignment he really enjoyed. He's discovered the ( Read more... )

The weekend at chez Morehouse was delightfully uneventful, even with the welcoming in of the new year ( Read more... )

I have a new book to write (Tate's YA book #3), and I've been having a hell of a time getting motivated (or, as my family likes to say "motor-vated") to write it. I think the truth is that I've fallen out of the habit. naomikritzer and I have talked about this before. Even after however many years publishing books, it's still easier for me to write if I DO ( Read more... )

Shawn arrived home safely on Friday night. The only thing that went awry while she was away was that I totally forgot to go pick up our very last CSA box. I blame MEA or whatever reason it was that we didn't have school. I managed to remember that it was Thursday in terms of recycling, but we were picking up Donte for the sleepover right about ( Read more... )