Schools have started for the most part. This summer just flew, hard to believe it's Labor Day weekend.

I had a nice "staycation" last week. The highlight by far was watching my parents enjoy their 50th anniversary gift- riding on the Goodyear Blimp. The weather was perfect for it, too. Not quite 70, partly sunny, lovely cloud formations. They were ( Read more... )

Well. Some news I've been expecting is coming tomorrow. So, my day could be pretty good. It could be a bit of a bummer but manageable. It could be extremely bad. Don't want to get into more- just hoping for the best (or at least not seeing worst case scenario. I'd settle for that).

Weather has been warm, but not unseasonable. In fact, it's been ( Read more... )

The past several days were extremely trying. Haven't been so happy to see the end of it in a while. Don't want to get into detail here but I'm looking to Monday with considerable trepidation. Sigh.

Will stick to book reviews for the most part, so as to not fall behind. Mostly O. Henry, plus an excellent book about Edgar Allan Poe.

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Glad the past few days have been fairly quiet.

This past Sunday, I get a call from my editor at about 7:40 a.m., give or take. Mass shooting in Akron. 27 shot, with one killed, two critically injured. Just... such a tragedy. Happened at a block party/birthday party. People were having fun, then I guess someone driving by started shooting. That ( Read more... )

That last post was longer than I expected and I have a lot of books, so I figured I'd break things down with a separate post for the books I've finished. Included are two books I've been working through for a while now (both were excellent, just had limited time to read them- one was the book I kept for lunch hour at work, the other until recently ( Read more... )

Whew, pretty much recovered from an insane week at this point, but it was an intense work week. Seven stories last Sunday - two which the USA Today picked up, a nice feather in the cap - plus a sad story that occupied much of the rest of my work days.

Got the rest of my plants out today- had most of them out last Sunday. Did some pot cleaning and ( Read more... )

I think we are safe from winter's admittedly loose grip now. Loving the nice weather. Pollen was SUPER bad last week, but this week was better. Part of it is running my air filter. Oh that helps soooo much.

Also wanted to update my book list- more O. Henry stories. Also have three books in progress, two of which I'm almost done with.

62. The ( Read more... )

I really can't complain since all in all our winter and spring has been really mild. Despite some freeze warnings and a few nasty storms, spring has been quite pretty. A couple days ago, it was 50s with frost alerts. Today it got to around 80, with more of the same expected tomorrow and Monday.

This was a pretty good week in all. Got to enjoy my ( Read more... )

Northeast Ohio. Gotta love it. This time last week, we were in a deep freeze. Today, right now, it's 42 degrees according to my laptop. The three days previous is exceeded 50 degrees.

A college friend posted how usually at this time of year, there was usually six inches of snow when he was growing up. I remarked that when I was young, the ground ( Read more... )

Still very cold, but not quite as bad. I'm lucky- I only went out twice, not on the worst days, and there was little to no wind. Also only had to be outside briefly. I am very fortunate.

While we were hit with a super cold missile, we dodged another bullet (at least around me, areas north weren't as lucky). There were reports all over about how we ( Read more... )