Reminder: GRAPEMO begins next Tuesday. There's still plenty of time to sign up. :)

Work news: Units combined again, new psychiatrist on board, and oh-what-fun-it-is-to-ride...

Book news: SAY THE WORD will be out in paperback on Feb 15th! I do love the subtles changes in the new cover:


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Well. The holidays are over. My tree is still up, but since it folds like an umbrella, I should have no problem at all putting it away one of these days. It was a bittersweet Christmas, what with Matthew and Molly and the boys now living out of town. But I had my usual New Year's Eve shindig, and of course we celebrated Kosher Christmas on Jan. 7. ( Read more... )

Busy weekend! No wonder my eyeball blew up (as noted in my flocked post). I chopped the down the rest of that tree and chopped 2 more fallen ones into nice little logs, though they're useless all covered in poison ivy. Now, what to do with them?

I also raked leaves with my neighbor's assistance--realizing too that that each time I bent over, he got ( Read more... )

After doing so well for so long, Eli's barfing this a.m. Again, thank you, Lord, for giving me the good sense not to invest in new carpeting quite yet ( Read more... )

How is it possible to find an ant in your house (actually crawling over your kitchen curtains) the size of your THUMB ( Read more... )

Yes, I am about to become a Tante again! My sister Mary is in labor and baby Rowan is on her way. :)

I'm praying very hard I get the day off from work.

I've started a synopsis. The more I write, the stupider it sounds. What happened to all the brilliant ideas that kept me awake at night?

Nothing like fighting with my husband over what we're going to ( Read more... )

1. Today is the day to sign up for JoNoWriMo: "It's a bit like NaNoWriMo, only you get an extra 1.5 months AND you don't have to write an entire novel. Basically, it's a time each year that a bunch of writers get together to support and encourage one another to meet a writing goal and/or finish a project." So get over there, dudes, and commit ( Read more... )

1. Tomorrow I'll post the winner of the STW/Amazon review contest. There's still time to get a review in. Also tomorrow, check out newport2newport's blog--she interviewed me ( Read more... )

1. Thank you, newport2newport for the review & contest for Say the Word. *smooch ( Read more... )

1. Just survived my 5-day stretch at work. I beleive I'll rant about this in a later post.

2. saraclaradara mentioned me on her Magical Mystery Tour!

3. See Eli staked out in backyard. See nosy little Yorkie run in our yard, yap-yap-yapping, like: "Ha, ha, you're tied up and I'm not, la-la-la!" See Eli do his monster sized WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! and catapult ( Read more... )